How to secure database passwords in PHP?

Question

When a PHP application makes a database connection it of course generally needs to pass a login and password. If I\'m using a single, minimum-permission login for my applica

Answer 1

If you're hosting on someone else's server and don't have access outside your webroot, you can always put your password and/or database connection in a file and then lock the file using a .htaccess:

order allow,deny
deny from all