Re: Preventing execution without inclusion

> as per PHP5 example > > 1 (the preferred way): user accesses > http://www.example.org/index.php?function=Join, this loads the > class > NewUser and begins its implementation. Because of the __autoload, it > includes class.join.php, in order to utilize the class. > > 2 (the wrong way): user accesses > http://www.example.org/includes/class.join.php without going > through > index.php. > > I am trying to prevent 2 from even occuring, utilizing a piece of code > that would check if index.php had included it, or not. This code would > be in the beginning of all the class files, at the top, before any other > code was to be executed. > > As of yet, it has eluded me... Put the include file outside the web directory tree. /jw