Protecting Pages Code? What Am I Doing Wrong? Please Help

Hi there,

I am having an issue protecting sub-folders within sub-folders with PHP.

I have been protecting pages with only short directories (doing fine), but now I am wanting to protect new directories with a number of sub-directories and that is where I am having troubles.


Example:
PHP Login Script Location: http://www.mydomain.com/login/free/main.php


Works Fine -
Pages Protected: http://www.mydomain.com/login/free/members/free.php

Does not work -
Wanting Pages Protected: http://www.mydomain.com/login/free/members/free/archive/directory/2008.php
(and branched out from there)


This is the code I use on tops of all my pages, but the long one's do not work...

<?php
include("..../include/session.php");
if(!$session->logged_in){ header("Location: ..../main.php"); } else {
?>
<!-- -->

Code (markup):

Only "../" works, not "..../" or "....../".

Can anyone tell me why this is the case and what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

 

Generally when assigning cookies and sessions in a subfolder, generally they don't carry to upper-level folders unless specified.

http://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/218237-session-not-carried-between-sub-folder-and-root/

 

use ../../ or ../../../

LOL, no comment

 

Or use the base root of your directories, try reading $_SERVER for more info.

 

Another option:

dirname(__FILE__).'/login/free/members/free/archive/directory/';

Code (markup):