Originally Posted by Mocker

for a linux/apache server here is the best way to prevent people from viewing the source

"killall -9 httpd"

or maybe in your .htaccess file

deny from all

.. if someone can see your website in their browser then they can see the source. PHP and other scripts just generates that source dynamically, you can still see the source it sends. Anything that is client-ran like javascript is sent to that users computer, so therefore they have complete access to it. Take daemons advice and brush up on Internet 101