HELP PLZ!!! how to deal with password fields?

[bluey2]

hi friends,
well i have this question that might sound so nieve to some, but i'd apprecaite all your responds

well, i'm working on a project where people register to the website, it stores their username, password, email addres ...etc. into a MySQL database,
verything works fine, except that when i open phpMyAdmin, i can see all the passwords of the users in row format, if he chooses a password "abc" i see it as "abc"
i thought of 2 things to do, but both ways have the same drawback,

first, i used md5() function
second, i used PASSWPRD to head the variable name $password when inserting the data into the MySQL database.

see? they both worked fine, the passwords are now unreadable, but both solutions are 1 way, that means users can't retrive their original passwords when they forget it.
they get the 1hwp231dsa things instead of their original "abc" passwords, that means that both solutions i thought of were 1 way encrypting, i'm looking for a 2 ways encrypting,

i hope u understood my point.
thanks 4 ur efforts 🙂

[dnszero]

The point of storing encrypted passwords is that NO ONE can reverse them to find out what the original was.

The most popular method of dealing with passwords is to use a one-way encryption (like MD5) and if the user forgets their password, you simply issue them a new password. This is usually done by sending it an email to an address registered to that user or by having them answer a "secret question" that they have setup in advance.