Security-related question about a possible exposed credential

[Emma-NYL]

Hello,

My name is Emma, I am conducting an academic study on possible credential exposure in public GitHub repositories.

While analyzing this repository, I found a string that may represent a credential. I'm including the code snippet below containing possible leakage. To avoid exposing sensitive information publicly, I marked the sensitive information.

Could you please help clarify whether the detected string is:

1. a real credential, or
2. a placeholder / example value?

Thank you for your time.

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Code snippet (sensitive values masked):

<?php

// Silakan berkreasi
$_dbhost = 'lo****ost';
$_dbname = 'vue-p****ative';
$_dbuser = 'l****';
$_dbpass = 's****';

return new PDO(
    "mysql:host={$_dbhost};dbname={$_dbname}",
    $_dbuser,
    $_dbpass,

Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!

Sincerely,
Emma