Prevent direct access to a php include file

Question

I have a php file which I will be using as exclusively as an include. Therefore I would like to throw an error instead of executing it when it\'s accessed directly by typing

Answer 1

I didn't find the suggestions with .htaccess so good because it may block other content in that folder which you might want to allow user to access to, this is my solution:

$currentFileInfo = pathinfo(__FILE__);
$requestInfo = pathinfo($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
if($currentFileInfo['basename'] == $requestInfo['basename']){
    // direct access to file
}