Question

I have a PHP file i made that basically give me passwords to all my users. I want to be the only one able to view the contents and see the page. Whats the best way doing it?

Password protection? Requiring a special cookie that only I have?

Give me some ideas..

Answer 1

If you want to be able to see if via a browser, try these:

Look into WWW Basic Authentication, which will basically have the browser prompt you for a username and password.

http://www.htaccesstools.com/htaccess-authentication/
http://eregie.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/manual/howto/auth.html

If you have a static IP address, you could make sure that only your IP address can see the page:

if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != '192.168.1.1')
{
      die();
}

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If it isn’t suppose to be seen by a browser, The BEST Solution would be to put the file above the DocumentRoot. AKA:

If your index.php file is at /Path/To/Root/Public_HTML put the file in /Path/To/Root