Posted by Josh Whiting on 01/14/05 17:33

> as per PHP5 example
>
> 1 (the preferred way): user accesses
> http://www.example.org/index.php?function=Join, this loads the class
> NewUser and begins its implementation. Because of the __autoload, it
> includes class.join.php, in order to utilize the class.
>
> 2 (the wrong way): user accesses
> http://www.example.org/includes/class.join.php without going through
> index.php.
>
> I am trying to prevent 2 from even occuring, utilizing a piece of code
> that would check if index.php had included it, or not. This code would
> be in the beginning of all the class files, at the top, before any other
> code was to be executed.
>
> As of yet, it has eluded me...

Put the include file outside the web directory tree.

/jw

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