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)?

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


on 7/10/01 12:30 AM, John Weaver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?


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