Question

I have a utility.php file, but I would like to build it become a library, or something else, just don’t want people can’t access the utility.php directly, but they can access it via other page, for example, a register.php, can use the utility.php, how can I do so? Thank you.

Answer 1

Something like this:

<?php //utility.php
    if(!defined('UTILITY_INCLUDED'){
         die('Grrrr...');
    }
?>

and then like this:

<?php //yourFile.PHP
    define('UTILITY_INCLUDED', TRUE);
    include ("utility.php";
?>

You have many other options to protect utility.php

• Put it some other directory, and prevent access through .htaccess file
• Use count(get_included_files())==1.. etc