calling PHP with HTTPrequest security

[geek7]

Hello all! I have written a helpdesk ticket webapp which uses many
javascript calls to different php scripts to update a mysql database.
My question is, a) is there a way to prevent access from users trying
to access the php scripts via a URL..ex..

http://www.???.org/scripts/getTicket...3234&user=jdoe

and if so, b) what is the best way to do this? I can't hide these in a
different, non-web directory because then I can't access the scripts
once the page loads. I'm sure this is a simple yes there is or no
there isn't a way type question, but I can't figure out what to do.
Any input is greatly appreciated, and if I missed this in a previous
post I apologize, I tried searching and couldn't find any posts related
to this. Thanks!!

[Randy Webb]

geek7 said the following on 1/2/2007 2:26 PM:

Hello all! I have written a helpdesk ticket webapp which uses many
javascript calls to different php scripts to update a mysql database.
My question is, a) is there a way to prevent access from users trying
to access the php scripts via a URL..ex..

http://www.???.org/scripts/getTicket...3234&user=jdoe

and if so, b) what is the best way to do this? I can't hide these in a
different, non-web directory because then I can't access the scripts
once the page loads. I'm sure this is a simple yes there is or no
there isn't a way type question, but I can't figure out what to do.
Any input is greatly appreciated, and if I missed this in a previous
post I apologize, I tried searching and couldn't find any posts related
to this. Thanks!!

comp.lang.php would be a better place to ask how to control how a PHP
page is called.

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