Question

i was given 3 static pages e.g

proposal.test.com/seo
proposal.test.com/ppc
proposal.test.com/design

I checked those directories in the server and there’s no dynamic about their indexes, all plain htm file.

the instruction given to me was, hide those url from anyone that doesn’t match a random url from database..meaning e.g

if user typed proposal.test.com/seo ,it shouldn’t display the page, if the user
typed something like e.g proposal.test.com/seo/a13sdfa and a13sdfa matched a key from a databased, that’s the only time the proposal.test.com/seo page will be displayed

so how am I gonna do this in PHP ? because all 3 directories are made up of pure static pages..

i have done the creating of keys already, i just wanna know how to hide these pages by appending a given random key and checking if it does or don’t exists in database.

Answer 1

Since the pages are never considered PHP, you can not block the access using PHP.

You can block access by configuring your web server, for example by using a .htaccess file.

If you blocked access the normal way, you can use PHP to allow access to the files on certain conditions..