Re: Question on password visibilty?

>
> The PHP include() function, unlike the HTML include, can reference files
> which are outside the Apache docroot.
>
> If you *have* to hard-code passwords somewhere, at least put them in a
> file outside the Apache docroot and use a PHP include() call to reference
> them in any PHP scripts which are within the scope of the Apache docroot.
>

Thanks, Geoff. That got me a keyword to find in my php books.

Phil
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