Re: Include

Thank you I got it working good deal -- Cross Walk Central www.crosswalkcentral.net Support Center Your Web Hosting Community! "Tom Carter" <subs@roundcorners.com> wrote in message news:001201c12888$bb8a9790$0a00a8c0@bjorn... > Yes that is correct. On a security point of view therer is something > extra you can do.. when using require you can require files that are outside > the web tree...by this I mean are not accessible thru the internet. So if > you site was in /home/web then you could setup a directory, say > /home/web_vars and in this put these kind of files. > > In the require statement you just then simple put in the full path, eg > require("/home/web_vars/vars.php"); > > The advantage of doing this is security When the file with such sensitive > information is included in the web tree then there are (admittedly limited) > possible scenarios in which this could be compramised. It is generally > accepted that it is sensible to avoid putting such information in the web > tree. > > Hope I've been clear, let me know if you need any more advice. > > > so in var.php i will put something like this > > > > $db="mydatabse"; > > $username="myusername"; > > $password="mypassword"; > > > > > > and so on? > > > > > > -- > > Cross Walk Central > > www.crosswalkcentral.net > > Support Center > > Your Web Hosting Community! > > > > "Seb Frost" <seb@raceshoot.com> wrote in message > > news:BAELJLBLJPDMDLJLPGGMMELHCFAA.seb@raceshoot.com... > > > chuck all the common variables in var.php > > > > > > then just put > > > > > > <?php > > > require("var.php"); > > > ?> > > > > > > - seb > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: CrossWalkCentral [mailto:support@crosswalkcentral.net] > > > Sent: 19 August 2001 03:18 > > > To: php-db@lists.php.net > > > Subject: [PHP-DB] Include > > > > > > > > > OK here is one for you folks that know what you are doing. > > > > > > I am making a script and I have about 5 php files in it. That have alot > of > > > the same system variables can I create one file with these settings in > it > > > and if so any one want to give me some hints on this > > > > > > thanks again. > > > > > > -- > > > Cross Walk Central > > > www.crosswalkcentral.net > > > Support Center > > > Your Web Hosting Community! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >