>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
Hello Stuart,
on 19.04.2001 you wrote:
> 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 wan
>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..
