Re: "blackboxing" my global functions

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:53:50 +1030, David Robley (huntsman@hermes.nisu.flinders.edu.au) wrote: >On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Theodore Jones wrote: >> > >> > OK - after a night's rest I would add: Use the auto_prepend >>configuration >> > directive, in httpd.conf, to prepend a file that calls, or >>includes, the >> > stuff you want kept confidential. >> >> I'm not quite following you here? >> >> ~ Theo > >The auto_prepend config directive allows you to automatically >prepend a >file to any documents served. You want to keep private the contents >of >certain included files whilst using them across your system. To >prevent >someone from gaining the include file name from php scripts and >maliciously >accessing the included files via fopen (as was suggested) you could >use the >prepend facility to include the contents, or call the specific >include >files. This way the name of the included files does not need to be >made >'public' and thus it's a bit harder for them to be found. but phpinfo() will show the filename. - Mark