That seems like it wouldn't be very secure at all. Maybe it's just because I don't understand the reason for *having* to do it that way. My first suggestion would be to see if there's any way you don't have to do that. If you have to do it, I would suggest maybe having it on an NFS share, or maybe FTP. Something that requires authentication would be best. -- Ray Hauge Application Development Lead American Student Loan Services www.americanstudentloan.com -----Original Message----- From: Scott [mailto:svinkle@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:18 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Remote MySQL connection via PHP file Hi all, I've been searching around for a while, but cannot find a solution. For a project of mine, I need to keep the connection information to a MySQL server database on another server. Example remote file: <?php $user = "joe"; $pass = "1234"; ?> Example local file: <?php include "http://www.remoteserver.com/remote_file.php";; // Use variables $user and $pass somehow... ?> I've tried including the file which has the username/pass, etc information via HTTP, but this doesn't seem to work. I assume because it returns what a web browser would return if this file was loaded into one, a blank screen. I've tried using the return statement in the file which houses the information, but this seems to return a boolean value (1 or 0)... not sure what's up with that. Any help with this would be most appreciated. Thank you. Scott -- 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
