About the security of the CodeIgniter View files

Question

In beginning of the libraries and models etc. of the CodeIgniter, we have this line which prohibits any direct and thus illegitimate access:

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

should (or must) the view files have this line at their beginning?

Answer 1

It is better to avoid it because the view files does not contain any security code usually, if you any, then that's another story...