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Asked: 2026-05-19T13:11:11+00:00

I’m setting up Paypal Pro and am considering ways to store my password securely.

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I’m setting up Paypal Pro and am considering ways to store my password securely. This is Paypal’s testing code and comments. How should I change this in order to securely protect the password?

I am only storing 1 password here – our API Password.

/**
# API_password: The password associated with the API user
# If you are using your own API username, enter the API password that
# was generated by PayPal below
# IMPORTANT - HAVING YOUR API PASSWORD INCLUDED IN THE MANNER IS NOT
# SECURE, AND ITS ONLY BEING SHOWN THIS WAY FOR TESTING PURPOSES
*/

define('API_PASSWORD', 'LJKL235JL532K35');
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  1. Editorial Team

    I think the most important thing is to store the password outside of your web-root folder.

    Apart from that I don´t really see what else you can do; if people gain access to the folders where the scripts are stored, they also have access to the code that decrypts / retrieves the password so no matter how good the encryption is, the password will be available. Unless I´m missing something…

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