HOw to prevent simple password readout by viewing source

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

Re: HOw to prevent simple password readout by viewing source

Hello Mark!

Mark@home am Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:12:42 +0100:

> 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.....

The source you see in your browsers source-view is the html-source the
script produced and not the php-source of the script itself.

Usually there is no need to mention account-information in the
html-source because such information is used internally inside the
script.

Do you really see the information in the html-source or are you just
afraid that it might happens?

Greeting

Bodo

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Re: HOw to prevent simple password readout by viewing source

Mark@home 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??
>
Write your connection settings in a file outside of your webservers
document root and include that file with php.

best regards, Hendrik