Re: How secure is this?

If this include parses it will not be seen by web. So, calling on your " dbconfig.php " will show world nothing. Although optimally it wouldn't be accessable via web. Consider : Title : .inc files - how secure are they? http://phpbuilder.com/tips/item.php?id=66 ( note: user comments within tip) This should provide some useful information. Philip On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Sefton wrote: > 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 >