RE: [PHP] How secure is this?

I use the following code to connect and the only way to get the username/password is if you have access to the raw file. $connection = mysql_connect ("localhost", "username", "password"); if ($connection == false){ echo mysql_errno().": ".mysql_error()."<BR>"; exit; } -----Original Message----- From: Sefton [mailto:c.sefton@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 5:22 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] How secure is this? I have setup a page that accesses mysql. The page has to included the account login name and password to access the mysql database. Example... <?php $user = "username"; //actual username goes here $pass = "password"; //actual password goes here $db = mysql_connect("localhost", $user, $pass)OR DIE("Unable to connect to database"); ?> If you get the idea. My concern is what if somebody can get to the source code. It could ruin me. I realise the php is a server side language, but is there any way that somebody could read this. If so how do i stop it? or is there another way to store my username & password that cannot be read. Please help Thanks Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net