Making some files access denied if there accessed directly?

[Demonic]

Is there a way to make files able to not be accessed directly?

Like can be accessed other ways but when viewing files straight threw the domain path it gives an error :).

[drifter]

I believe you are looking for .htaccess and "hot linking" - you can google that.

if this is not what you are looking for, you may be looking for something related to permissins which you need to talk to your hosting company to see how your server is set up - probably not the best.

The last option is to store the files our site of the web root.

[Demonic]

I know theres .htaccess ways of doing it but i need the PHP coding way  :'(.

[trq]

There are ways but it really depends how your doing things. For instance, in every page of my applications I firstly invoke my config.inc.php file. Within this file I define the constant HASCONFIG to true. Then, in any other included file (say db.lib.php) I check for this constant. eg;

[code=php:0]
if (!HASCONFIG) {
  echo "This file is unable to be called directly";
  exit();
}
[/code]

This meens that trying to browse to db.lib.php will get you the above error. However, in my pages I can use it as long as I include it after my config.inc.php. eg;

index.php
[code=php:0]
<?php
  require_once "config.inc.php";
  require_once "db.lib.php";
  // rest of code.
?>
[/code]