Is this a safe way to include pages from a $_GET parameter:
$pg = basename($_GET['pg']);
if (is_file('views/' . $pg . '.php')) {
require 'views/' . $pg . '.php';
}
I sanitize the parameter using basename() and all the possible files for including are in a "views/" subdirectory. It seems safe, but I want to be sure.
The reason I want to do this, is because I currently use mod_rewrite to define all my URLs, but I want a single point of entry and I'd rather keep defining them that way than use a router. So I'd have a rule like this:
RewriteRule ^item/(\d+)/?$ index.php?pg=item&id=$1 [L, NC]
And my index.php would look like this:
ob_start();
$pg = basename($_GET['pg']);
if (is_file('views/' . $pg . '.php')) {
require 'views/' . $pg . '.php';
}
$content = ob_get_clean();
require 'template.php';
Any opinions? Thanks.