Nope, the login function uses cleartext. Put your connect function in a
seperate file in a secure directory, and include() it to make the connection.
That seems to be the way to do it, someone else may have a better idea.
-Micah
On Thursday 24 February 2005 02:37 am, Gael Lams wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I use the classic following rows to connect to a mysql
> database. I always put $passsword in clear in the php
> connection file and I wonder whether there is a way to
> have it in md5 so that someone reading the file could
> not use it to connect to the db. I googled a bit but
> find only threads explaining how to have password
> saved in md5 inside a mysql table which is not I would
> like to do
>
> Regards,
>
> Ga�l
>
> function SQLConnect()
> {
> $server_name = 'localhost';
> $db_name = 'cmsdb';
> $user_name = 'user';
> $password = 'clearpassword';
>
> if (!$dbconnect =
> mysql_connect($server_name, $user_name, $password))
> {
> echo "Connection failed to the
> host 'localhost'.";
> exit;
> }
> if (!mysql_select_db($db_name))
> {
> echo "Cannot connect to
> database '.$db_name.'";
> exit;
> }
> }
>
>
>
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