centralized include file

[jrahma]

Hi,

I have multiple web projects but all on the same database. I keep changing the password regulary for security reasons but it's a major task every time to go and change the password in the connect.php file in every project.

Is it possible to have one connect.php for all my projects even if it's all having different domains but all will be reading from let's say www.maindomain.com/connect.php?

Then I can change it in one place only...

Thanks
Jassim

[dalecosp]

If they're all on the same server (computer), you can include a file with a filesystem path instead of a URL.

<?php

require_once("/usr/somepath/my_connection_file.php");

And that would actually be the better way to do it; you couldn't use an HTTP file that didn't output something, and you wouldn't want to output your credential to the WWW ;-)