I have a PHP script that connects to a database, downlaods some data and closes the connection.

However, my username and apssword for the database is right in my source code.

I was told you can use MD5 but I wasn't able to figure out how to use it exactly without having the password somewhere within the the source code.

So my question is, is there any secure way to connect ot a mysql database without including the actual plain text password into the source?