something.php.inc

MysticFallout

i was told yesterday when using an outside of the script function and such to put it in a file called whatever.php.inc so i did this and used require() as i was told

require("something.php.inc");

well, now my function shows on the page. like

function a_function(){
some code
}

what am i doing wrong here? is using .inc a good thing?

raymie

There are several issues here.

Firstly when using included files you must remember to have the PHP tags at the start and end otherwise the content is treated as being HTML and not PHP.

i.e.
<?
{code}
?>

Another issue with using the .inc suffix is that if someone enters the name of the inc file directly then by default it will be shown as text on the browser.

You can avoid this by either changing PHP to treat inc files as PHP files (via PHP.INI or .HTACCESS) or my preference is to have all the included files outwith the document root and so cannot be referred to via a URL.

Hope that this helps.

MysticFallout

oh man, i cannot BELIEVE i forgot <? and ?>

thank you very much raymie 🙂

wizkid

Originally posted by raymie
[...] Another issue with using the .inc suffix is that if someone enters the name of the inc file directly then by default it will be shown as text on the browser. [...]

Hi,

that's right. And if that would be a problem for you, then you could paste following into your .htaccess file (not tested):

<FilesMatch "\.inc$"> 
order deny,allow 
allow from all 
</FilesMatch>

wizkid