file by FTP for example). If you're really paranoid, put the
username/password outside your htroot into a separate file, say
passwords.inc and include it into php with
include('/secure/passwords.inc'), but this isn't really needed, and
BTW, it won't make the connection method more secure, or
Hi people,
I'm setting up a database to collect email addresses on my web site, but I
want to avoid using the insecure connection method:
mysql_connect("host", "user", "pass")
as this obviously displays my username and password to anyone who wants it.
So I need a secure method for PHP to
So I need a secure method for PHP to access a MySQL DB - I expect there's a
million different ways of doing it, and I doubt any of them are simple...!
You could start including a file from outside your HTML directory.. so
Apache can't show it to the world.. but PHP can get it for inclusing..