What you could do is have a script called connect.inc which has your pg_pconnect statement, then use the "include" directive to include your connect.inc on all of your subsequent PHP pages. This way you only have the username/password hard coded in one location so if the username/password were to change, you only have to change one script instead of changing many.
HTH Sam Masiello Software Quality Assurance Engineer Synacor (716) 853-1362 X289 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "webmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:59 AM Subject: [PHP] PHP and passwords > Is there a way to connect to your database using php without hard coding > a password into the php file? We run PostgreSQL 7.1 on a Linux 7.2 > server with the latest version of apache. I don't want to change the > authentication within Postgres to not require a password. But I also, > for security reasons, don't want to have passwords coded into the php > scripts for accessing the database. I'm very new to php, but very > excited about what I've learned so far. Any help would be appreciated. > > thanks, > > Elkan > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
