Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-21 Thread Kim Madsen
Al wrote on 20/02/2010 19:30: I use Kim's solution and take it one step forward. Htacces files can get lost or corrupted, so No solution to that problem as I see it. In my config file I have the text string. I like the idea, but what if this file is never accessed? -- Kind regards

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-21 Thread Al
On 2/21/2010 9:11 AM, Kim Madsen wrote: Al wrote on 20/02/2010 19:30: I use Kim's solution and take it one step forward. Htacces files can get lost or corrupted, so No solution to that problem as I see it. In my config file I have the text string. I like the idea, but what if this

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-20 Thread Kim Madsen
Michael Stroh wrote on 19/02/2010 19:19: I have a site I'm working on with some data that I want to be readable by anyone, but some files that I want to keep hidden from outside users. Here is an example of my file structure. /products/data1/item_1/data.txt /products/data2/item_2/data.txt

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-20 Thread Nathan Rixham
Kim Madsen wrote: Michael Stroh wrote on 19/02/2010 19:19: I have a site I'm working on with some data that I want to be readable by anyone, but some files that I want to keep hidden from outside users. Here is an example of my file structure. /products/data1/item_1/data.txt

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-20 Thread Al
I use Kim's solution and take it one step forward. Htacces files can get lost or corrupted, so In my config file I have the text string. //region htaccess file text // Code writes to /db folder; Admin mode checks file existence and text; replaces with this if different.

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-19 Thread Bastien Koert
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Michael Stroh st...@astroh.org wrote: I have a site I'm working on with some data that I want to be readable by anyone, but some files that I want to keep hidden from outside users. Here is an example of my file structure. /products/data1/item_1/data.txt

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-19 Thread Rene Veerman
the proper way i know of is not the easiest to implement..; 1) create a php script that accepts enough parameters to get at your data. eg: /products/view.php?dataNr=1itemNr=1 2) let that script compare the current user (visitor who's logged in) to authentication data that tells which it if the

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-19 Thread Rene Veerman
As far as storing the files, use a seperate subdirectory called rawData or something, and place all your files in there, aim for 10 - 5000 files per directory, and keep it logical. But since you want to stop guessers from accessing it, use a randomID() function that you create to generate a random

Re: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-19 Thread Rene Veerman
1 more thing: doing this right isn't easy. at all. it took me more than a year to do it properly. you may wanna look around on sf.net for any package that can do this for you. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Michael Stroh st...@astroh.org wrote: I have a site I'm working on with some data that

RE: [PHP] Advice on maintaining public and private files

2010-02-19 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Rene Veerman the proper way i know of is not the easiest to implement..; 1) create a php script that accepts enough parameters to get at your data. eg: /products/view.php?dataNr=1itemNr=1 2) let that script compare the current user (visitor who's logged in) to authentication data