Safety in hidden sorce code

[ATM]

Could someone please tell me if there is a way to veiw the hidden sorce on peoples php pages, would it be safe to save a password in a php file?

[aspnetguy]

there is no way to view the source code in the browser. So yes it is safe to store a password in a php file.

[businessman332211@hotmail.com]

The reason noone can see the php information is because when it hits the browser, it's not there to see. The idea of the php processor is to take the php, and at some point output something. To the browser, or only output certain things based on certain conditions, like using includes in an if statement or something. So they request the page, it goes to the processor, it runs the program, and turns whatever it needs to into xhtml output, or css/javascript output if you are using it to output one of those, or vb script then it returns it to the browser, where it ends up running just naturally, as if it had been done with plain static pages, except the output is done with php, but the php is no longer there, just the xhtml/css/javascript or whatever markup that the php processor created with what you told it to create, with echo's and the like.

[Cronthenoob]

If someone finds a way to download the file from your web server then its not safe . . .

[aspnetguy]

If someone finds a way to download the file from your web server then its not safe . . .

If you leave your webserver that open you should not be hosting sensitive information or if your host is that pathetic you need to switch.

[Cronthenoob]

If you leave your webserver that open you should not be hosting sensitive information or if your host is that pathetic you need to switch.

I guess im a big fat moron. I'm pretty dumb sometimes.