On 05-Jun-01 Ed Peddycoart wrote:
> Thanks...this helped...Just had success in connecting to the MySQL server
> and dumping the db contents to the screen....One worrisome bit though...My
> username and password for connecting to the db on my host is my username and
> password for the web account. If I want to create dynamic webpages by
> pulling data from my db, won't I have to put this information (usersname and
> pw) in the php file and leave it on the server? Sounds pretty darn scary to
> me...maybe I am confused.
> Ed
>
No, you put it in a php file with nothing but defines / data,
say 'config.php' :
<php
// Database ***************************
define('DBHOST', 'localhost');
define('DBUSER', 'abc');
define('DBPASS', 'abc123');
---
and include('config.php') in your scripts.
If the webserver is configured properly, access to this file will evaluate as
php code; so nothing will get output.
Better yet, put the file outside the $DOCUMENT_ROOT, in case your server is
poorly configured.
include("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/../config.php");
Regards,
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