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Asked: 2026-06-03T12:12:48+00:00

This question is as simple as the title states. It’s probably been asked hundreds

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This question is as simple as the title states. It’s probably been asked hundreds of times but I couldn’t find the answer, so sorry.

Basically, I want to get some information from a MySQL database from one of the pages on my website and just want to make sure that it is safe to establish the connection on that page because I obviously don’t want the information about my MySQL database to be compromised.

I know that anyone can view the HTML source of a webpage with the web browser but I wasn’t sure if the same could be done with PHP (variables)…

Thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    Unless your server is fundamentally broken and serves up the raw PHP code, the only thing end-users ever will see is the OUTPUT of your script. A properly functioning setup will never serve up PHP code.

    If you’re worried about the posibility of a leak, then keep sensitive data in a separate file outside of your document root, and include() it into PHP. It’s no defense against people who have shell access to your server, but it would keep a misconfigured server from leaking that data if the PHP code DOES get served up somehow.

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