Question

php : view.php

<h1>hello world</h1>

php: index.php

require('view.php');

if both files are on root mysite.com

if I access mysite.com/index.php I should get ‘hello world‘

if I access mysite.com/view.php I should get Nothing displayed.

I was looking for some .HTACCESS method but any other suggestions are welcomed 🙂

Conclusion: wish the user to not be able to see the view plain text, and only allow the required or get_file_contents() to read the files. So read the file only within server.

Answer 1

The best way to handle this is to have your include files that are never intended to be accessed outside the web root, where they can never be accessed via a browser.

i.e. your file structure would be:

www/index.php
includes/view.php

You can set PHP’s include_path to include the includes/ directory so your includes don’t need to have a path explicitly in them, too.