| Posted by Phil Coen on 07/13/05 02:43 
I have been learning PHP on my own time and have an Apache server on mynetwork at home.  Obviously security is not a problem on this setup.
 
 But as I begin to think about actually using code on a publicly addressably
 server someday, the examples in my books seem to be wide open to the world.
 
 Most use an HTML form that calls a separate php program.  Most of the
 passwords are either hard coded in that php module or are in a file
 accessable by that module.
 
 Heck, anybody can download the php script and look at the passwords.  Or,
 use it to see what file it is pointing to.
 
 Am I missing something here?
 
 Where should the logon security for the web site actually be?
 
 Thanks anybody
 Phil
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