Diplay page directly with php

Question

What is the best way to "NOT" display a page directly in php?

Edit

There is a page = register.php a user cant open register.php directly. Only can access from index.php > Register.php Thanks

Answer 1

You can put

die();

or

exit();

At the top of your PHP document. However, your question is unclear as to what you wish to accomplish.

Answer 2

Any PHP files containing sensitive data, such as database password, should be stored outside of the document root and included where needed. That way, if an admin makes a serious mistake and the web server starts sending PHP unparsed, that data will be inaccessible.

Edit

You edited your question and it now seems you wish to prevent access to page without them coming from a particular page. You should be able to get some ideas from these questions:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2769481/deny-direct-access-to-a-php-file-by-typing-the-link-in-the-url

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2587903/preventing-direct-access-to-a-php-page-only-access-if-redirected

Answer 3

I think you want something like this:

if ( $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] != 'http://YOUR_SITE/index.php' ) {                                                              
   echo "Can't access this page from this referer";                                                                            
   die();                                                                                                                      
}                                                                                                                              

// go on with your register.php code 

Answer 4

You can start a session in index.php and check for a certain variable from that session in the other pages.

Answer 5

make a file index.php

in it put

<?php
include 'register235235235235.php';
?>

make a file register235235235235.php

put whatever you want in there

As far as securing php includes, I only secure my database.php files which contain usernames and passwords.