Re: [PHP] Re: limit access to php page

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Newsgroups php.general
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On 5/29/13 6:14 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
> On 5/29/2013 7:11 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>>   I've created an authentication page (index.php) that logs into an LDAP
>> server, then points you to a second page that some folks are intended to
>> use to request apache redirects from the sysadmin group (redirect.php).
>>
>> Everything works great so far, except if you pop the full URL of
>> redirect.php into your browser you can hit the page regardless of the
>> login
>> process on index.php.
>>
>> How can I limit redirect.php so that it can only be reached once you
>> login
>> via the index page?
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Tim
>>
> I would simply place my redirect.php script outside of the
> web-accessible tree.  The user can never type that uri into his browser
> and have it work.

I always see this answer a lot but never any sample code of how to 
include that file using require_once() or include_once().

It would be nice to know the exact syntax of inclusion of such files.

Say, for example if I put the login/redirect .php file 3-4 levels up 
from my webroot.

-d
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