help with basic <directory> directives...

Hello,
I'm new here and to Apache, but what I'm trying to do is set up
our PHP sub-directories so that scripts can be executed / included
from them but no other means can access them. As of the moment our
apache admin doesn't know what to name .htaccess files so I'm relying
on you people to let me know if this works, or how I need to implement
it if it doesn't.

<Directory */PHP>
Options ExecCGI Includes
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</Directory>

Does this work? Or are all requests to this directory denied by the
'Deny from all' directive, even the ones I specified to be allowed?