On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Adam Jon Richardson <adamjonr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 1) This approach shouldn't be used on a shared server, as the command-line > logs could be viewed by others to gain the DB credentials. You can store the credentials in ~/.my.cnf for the user that will be executing the script (Apache?) so you can keep them off the command line. Cheers! David