PHP Class Trouble

[amanjsingh]

I am new to OOPS esp in PHP and I am stuck here -

I have a file called dat.php which has a class defined in it. This class has usual functions for database connectivity and error reporting if not connected etc. I use this file anywhere in my application I want to connect to my database.

The constructor is

    function DB {
       $this->host = 'XXXXXXXX';
       $this->user = 'XXXXXXXX';
       $this->password = 'XXXXXXXXXX';
       $this->database = 'XXXXXXXX';
       $this->persistent = false;
 
    }

Problem is that I have to encrypt the password (using another encryption function) and retrieve it from another file and I do not want to put username and password here in this file and I do not know how to do that. I definitely cannot remove this class as it has been used at a lot of places.


Can anyone help please?

Thanks,
AJ

[amanjsingh]

Well, I came to know that base class constructor does not automatically pass to the derived class. So I put my username and password in a class in some different file. Included this file in the dat.php and in the constructor of the class DB{} I used this =

class DB extends DB_p {
 
function DB {
parent::DB_p();
}
}

Any suggestions if this secure?

Thanks
AJ