Re: [PHP] Newbie security database connection question

2011-08-19 Thread Tamara Temple
On Aug 19, 2011, at 7:52 PM, DealTek wrote: Hello, NEWBIE: I have a security question: When working with PHP and MySQL, it seems that a one method is to create a connection.php page to the database that will store the connection parameters such as username, password and URL ip in clear

Re: [PHP] Newbie security database connection question

2011-08-19 Thread Midhun Girish
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 6:22 AM, DealTek wrote: > Hello, > > NEWBIE: I have a security question: > > When working with PHP and MySQL, it seems that a one method is to create a > connection.php page to the database that will store the connection > parameters such as username, password and URL ip i

[PHP] Newbie security database connection question

2011-08-19 Thread DealTek
Hello, NEWBIE: I have a security question: When working with PHP and MySQL, it seems that a one method is to create a connection.php page to the database that will store the connection parameters such as username, password and URL ip in clear text and include this on various pages. Since hack