Posted by Alan Cole on 03/08/06 18:10

In article <be4df$440effca$89781b7f$12835@news1.tudelft.nl>,
"Mark@home" <donnersm@home.nl> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how i can prevent that users can see my connection string
> to mysql database?
>
> Using my browser i could easely use the function: view source.....showing
> the html/php code.
>
> IF the file includes the connection string than anyone could see my database
> name and password.....
>
> How can i prevent this??
>
> Please help.
> Mark

If the server is set up properly no php code will be sent to the
browser... php is a server side scripting language that is processed on
the server and should never get sent to the browser when a page is
requested.

Al.

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