[FX.php List] Lesson learned about password values

[Steve Winter]

Hi Jonathan,

In your PHP.ini file you can specify a default include location to 'include' 
files from (do a phpinfo(); to track down your ini file, and see what its' 
currently set to, if anything). You can then place files in that folder... 
in your pages if you do include('maillParameters.php;); php will firstly 
look in the same folder as the file that the include is in, if it doesn't 
find it there, it will look in the folder specified in php.ini (and if it 
doesn't find it there it will throw an error).

The upshot of this is that you can have include files which are accessible 
from every page/virtual server/folder on your server...

HTH..

Cheers
Steve 



-----Original Message-----

From: Jonathan Schwartz <jschwartz at exit445.com>

To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>

Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:11:36 -0800

Subject: [FX.php List] Lesson learned about password values




Hi Folks,



I'm trying to track down the source of unauthorized emails going 

through my mail server.  The problem is, when I first started using 

PHPMailer, I used a hard-coded Username and Password.  Guess what?  I 

now need to locate and edit every script in every project that 

contains that password pair.



If I had used a variable and stored it into a centrally-located 

include file, the change would have been made just once...or at least 

once per project.



Is server_data the right place?  If so, then that would require a 

change in every solution/project. Otherwise, where would one store a 

single server_data file that feeds all solutions?  I've heard 

discussion about not storing the server data on the same machine, 

also.



Thx



Jonathan





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Jonathan Schwartz

Exit 445 Group

jonathan at exit445.com

http://www.exit445.com [http://www.exit445.com/]

415-381-1852

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