password()?

Does anyone know about password(), it's not listed on php.net

password(\"$password\"))

should encrypt the password but doesn't seem to have any effect?

What makes you think it exists?

PHP fast & easy web development, by J C Meloni pg 247

Are you refering to the MySQL password encryption? This encrypts passwords as they are saved into the db, and must also be used when retrieving them.

eg. $result = mysql_query("INSERT INTO users (username, password) VALUES ('$username', password('$password')");

hope this helps