Password Security

[Anon]

Hello experts,

I am fairly new to PHP and have successfully created a few scripts to access data in a MySQL database and verify un/pw combos and such. My problem lies in the fact that the passwords are sent plaintext to the verification script, so that anyone browsing through a user's history could easily get their passwords. Could someone suggest a way to encrypt or otherwise mask this?

Thanks in advance,
-cyomega
[e-mail]

[crowezr]

Check out the md5() function. It can be used for one-way encryption. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php