Hi everyone,
I am set up with xampp on my home pc, while I am going through the book and everything has worked great up to this point. In chapter 8 Larry talks about connecting to the db. First he has us put a temporary copy of mysqli_connect.php in the htdocs folder and look for a blank page when you run it in your browser. When I do that it works fine, then he says to delete that copy and just keep the mysqli_connect.php outside the htdocs folder for more security. In this case I saved it in the xampp directly that is just above the htdocs folder. When I do that I cannot connect any longer. Is this normal, or am I missing something?