including files from another server

[martincrumlish]

Hi,

I have some security issues I want to implement on my web app.

I have created an app that works of a mission ciritical Informix server, my boss is concerned that if someone hacked one of our web servers and saw the connection info for the Informix DB server they could get access to that and then, in turn get access to your customer data.

I was thinking, is there a way to encode the username and password used in the PHP code for conencting to the informix server. Would MD5 work for this? if so, how would i go about setting it up. I haven;t used MD5 before.

Also, is there a way that i can include a php file from a different server?

Thanks,
Martin