RE: [PHP] how to hide dbconnect file if its in publisheddirectory?

From: Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:01:49 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] how to hide dbconnect file if its in publisheddirectory?
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Hmmm, I was wondering about security of PHP also. Does anyone know the general issues of security within PHP documents? My thought is that PHP cannot be seen when you view a source anyway, so isn't it secure enough (besides the basic firewall and system security)? -----Original Message----- From: zerosumzero@yahoo.com [mailto:zerosumzero@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, July 09, 1979 11:40 PM To: jweaver@erie.net; Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Noah Spitzer-Williams; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] how to hide dbconnect file if its in publisheddirectory? on 7/10/01 12:30 AM, John Weaver at jww@jweaver.net wrote: > > Sorry, I should have been more clear. If you write modular code, your > included file will be nothing but a group of functions. Call a file with > nothing but functions in it and you get; <HTML><HEAD></HEAD></HTML>. I can't > see the security problem you refer to. Ahhh! I have this problem now ... do you put the <?php ?> tags on an inc file? If not how do you keep people from reading it? -- 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

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