At 2:13 PM +0530 6/7/01, Adrian D'Costa wrote:
>On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Ian Ford wrote:
>
>> Name your config file config.inc and if any of the below situations
>> happen your password and username will not show up in plain text for the
>> casual browser.
>> (EXAMPLE:
>>
>> CONFIG.INC
>> <?
>> $DBname = 'test';
>> $DBuser = 'imatest';
>> $DBpass = 'Whatever';
>> $DBhost = 'localhost';
>> ?>
>>
>> INDEX.PHP
>> <?
>> require("config.inc");
>> $conn = mysql_connect($DBhost,$DBuser,$DBpass);
>> mysql_select_db($DBname);
>> ?>
>>
>> END EXAMPLE)
>> You can place the config.inc any where you want. My preference is in a
>> includes folder...
>
>Actually I tried this out sometime ago and found that it appears as a
>plain text file. This I believe is because the webserver know that .php
>or .php3 should be treated as a php file and other in which ever way it
>can display.
That only applies to the extension of the top-level file. Included
files can have any extension. You do, however, have to surround the
text of the included file with <?php ?> or <? ?> or whatever tags you
use. That might have been your problem.
--
Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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