The best idea of denied access file directly?

[tonyinabox]

I am looking for the idea for php code to denied the accessing directly to a file.

The file i am talking about will be use for include();

so basically not allow to access the file directly.

:)

[mad4]

You could do something like this:
<?php
$green="yes";
include('yourfile.php');
?>

and in the file yourfile.php have:
if($green!="yes"){
exit();
}
else
{
//do something
}

There may be a better/more secure solution depending what you need to do.

[tonyinabox]

it is going to be in opensource project so.

do you have an idea for more secure?

I saw in mambo use

defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );

Do you know how does it work?

[tonyinabox]

oh I on the file will have this line, but still thinking about what to check


//check direct access
if ($something to check not correct) {
echo "This file can't access directly";
exit;
}

[tonyinabox]

ok I know now. hehehe.. very same as the code you gave above. :p

thank you.