Re: how to hide dbconnect file if its in publisheddirectory?

On Tuesday 10 July 1979 12:55 am, zerosumzero@yahoo.com wrote: > on 7/10/01 1:01 AM, Navid A. Yar at NavidYar2@home.com wrote: > > 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)? > > If you have some function in a file called say ... functions.inc > > you can see the php script if you call functions.inc from a browser... > > because the server won't do the php code in an inc file... > > how do I change this!? Name the file ... functions.inc.php and insure that you have the php start and end tags on it. -- Regards, John Weaver