[TUT]Professional Styled Externals[/TUT]

[TesoMayn]

I have no idea if this is posted or not, but I thought I'd share.
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This does not protect your externals or DCRs, it just makes it look cleaner and more professional in the source, and I use it because it is faster to write up than to type out the complete URL.
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Requirements:

• Must host own DCRs/Externals
• PHP Support (If you have a hotel you have this, unless you use flat file)

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Create a file and name it whatever you want, I am calling it "Externals.php" for this example.

Inside the file paste the following:

if (file_exists($_GET['id'] . '.txt'))
{
    header('Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8;');
    include $_GET['id'] . '.txt';
}
else
{
    header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." 404 Not Found");
}

if (empty($_GET['id']))
{
    header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]." 404 Not Found");
}

From here, edit your external variables and text, change them to the following:
(Do not add extension at end; normally .txt, sometimes .cfm)

External Text:

<PATH-TO-YOUR-HOTEL>/<PATH-TO-FILE/<FILE>.php?id=<EXTERNAL-TEXT-NAME>

External Variables:

<PATH-TO-YOUR-HOTEL>/<PATH-TO-FILE/<FILE>.php?id=<EXTERNAL-VARIABLES-NAME>

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Soon I will give a tutorial on how to protect your externals and DCRs.

Thanks for reading, please like if you found this helpful, again, this is mainly a "for looks" thing, many of you might have known this, a lot of you will comment and say you did, but really didn't.

So please, no negative feedback as it is just an excuse to flame, and increase post count (Nub Move)

 

[Stallone]

Nice thread ;D.

 

[Thom]

Or you could just use htaccess and remove the .txt extention to make it look good too...

 

[Stallone]

Or you could just use htaccess and remove the .txt extention to make it look good too...

Oh yea.. thats true

OFT: What happened to your orange name D;!