password

[Anon]

hi all
i need to create the user membership form. for this how do i store user's password in mysql.i don't wanna store password in plain text. how can i do this?

Thanks in advance
Paras

[mharju]

Hi,

See the md5()-function in the PHP manual. It does a MD5 hash out of a string. then you can store this value to the database.

When the user enters his/her password to the password-field, md5() this too, and compare.

🙂Mikko

[badman]

you can also use one way encryption using mysql function password(), this will encrypt the password at the table level itself!

even you cant see it.

when authenticating use
select password("password_supplied")

and compare this result to the one obtained from table.