Posted by Dana Cartwright on 04/27/06 04:09

>I have a website consisting of php segments.
>
> Example
> page1.html calls in code from seg1.php and seg2.php
>
> If the user goes directly to www.mydomain.com/seg1.php they see everything
> visible to a browser on that page.
>
> Can I prevent users from loading individual php segments. The only time
> that seg1.php should be visible is in its original context on page1.html
>

The way Joomla and Mambo handle this is as follows:

In page1.php (surely you meant .php, not .html?) you do this right at the
top:

define( 'MAIN_PAGE_LOADED', TRUE );

Then, in "seg1" and "seg2" you do this, again right at the top:

defined( 'MAIN_PAGE_LOADED' ) or die ( 'This page is restricted' );

So, you prevent 'seg1' and 'seg2' from being directly loaded by the user.
They can only be used as include files in 'page1'.

Seems like a simple and effective solution.

-Dana

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