Question

My supervisor wants me to have a separate MySQL login configuration file, which will then be read and executed by my pages.

He wants it separate so that it is easily changeable.

How would I go about creating it (with separate lines for each of the parts for authentication, i.e. server, username, password, etc) and including it in say, one of my regular pages?

Answer 1

A short simple setup:

dbcredentials.php

$db_user = 'fred';
$db_pass = 'flintstone';
$db_name = 'bedrock';
$db_host = 'localhost';

db_con.php

require_once('dbcredentials.php');
$conn = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass) or die(mysql_error());