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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions best_practices/configuration.rst
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Expand Up @@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ they have nothing to do with the application's behavior. In other words, your
application doesn't care about the location of your database or the credentials
to access to it, as long as the database is correctly configured.

.. caution::

Beware that dumping the contents of the ``$_SERVER`` and ``$_ENV`` variables
or outputting the ``phpinfo()`` contents will display the values of the
environment variables, exposing sensitive information such as the database
credentials.

.. _best-practices-canonical-parameters:

Canonical Parameters
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions configuration/external_parameters.rst
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Expand Up @@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ the following:

fastcgi_param DATABASE_URL "mysql://db_user:db_password@127.0.0.1:3306/db_name";

.. caution::

Beware that dumping the contents of the ``$_SERVER`` and ``$_ENV`` variables
or outputting the ``phpinfo()`` contents will display the values of the
environment variables, exposing sensitive information such as the database
credentials.

Constants
---------

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