[Labs-l] Connecting to MySQL in PHP

[Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada]

$_SERVER["HOME"] is undefined. I just used
parse_ini_file("../replica.my.cnf");

Thanks!


2014-06-17 19:01 GMT+02:00 Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com>:

> Something like
>
> <?php
>
> $db_mycnf = parse_ini_file($_SERVER['HOME']."/replica.my.cnf");
>
> $db_username = $db_mycnf['user'];
>
> $db_password = $db_mycnf['password'];
>
> unset($db_mycnf);
>
>
>
> should do nicely.  It’ll store the username and password to the variables
> $db_username and $db_password.
>
>
>
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> Rodríguez-Posada
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:35 PM
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> *Subject:* [Labs-l] Connecting to MySQL in PHP
>
>
>
> Hello;
>
> I need to connect to a MySQL database using PHP. I have a replica.my.cnf
> that I guess I have to use. What is the best way to connect to MySQL using
> this file, without exposing the user/pass in the PHP code?
>
> There is no help about this in the tutorial.[1]
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools/Help
>
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