Re: Making your include files invisible (header() in if loop)

On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 11:50 PM, qartis wrote:

I wanted to hide the existance of my include files by making them 'invisible': give a 404 error when requested. This worked, but the files that were including were obviously 404ing too. So I decided to use $PHP_SELF and check whether the script's PHP_SELF was it's filename, which would mean that it was being accessed directly, as opposed to being included.

Just don't name any of your real files "include"! If you have access to your web server, you can easily set a directive in httpd.conf (assuming you're using Apache) to deny any file serve request with the following line: <Files ~ "\.inc$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com