Posted by d on 01/30/06 19:25

"Jon" <jonra@netins.com> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> I have a question regarding include files. I'm currently wanting to secure
> all of the pages within a directory by having a login script that queries
> a MySQL DB, and writes a session variable confirming the user is
> successfully logged in.
>
> Now, I've done this many times before, however I'm getting kind of sick of
> putting the include file to check the session variable on EVERY page
> within a directory. This is especially irritating if I for whatever reason
> want to unsecure a directory, or change the structure of the login
> system - it forces me to go into each file of the admin area and remove
> the call to the file.
>
> My question is: Is there a way to have PHP force an include file per
> directory instead of just file? Maybe have a global file inside the
> directory that will cascade the include to every page below? Or am I
> simply forced to manually include the file on each page?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Jon
>

Have you tried using the httpd.conf to set the auto_prepend_file directive
for specific directories? You can put it in the <directory> section, so you
can set different directories to prepend your login script. That would take
it out of your code and put it in apache...

http://uk2.php.net/manual/en/configuration.changes.php

dave

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