help in function CheckPassword

new_programmer

Hello guys, can someone help me in writing a following function?

a function that will implement a password validation routine. The function will accept the username, plaintext password, an MD5 Hash to validate and an optional array

The MD5 hash should contain the password with the key appended to it, if a key was passed to the function.

if the login is successful the function should return boolean true, if the login is unsuccessfull, the function should log the failed attampt to a file in /var/tmp/login_failures using the usernames and a timestamp. The function should then return Boolean false. Note that this function will exist on a web server and could have many concurrent hits to this function.

The function should implement the folloing function prototype.

function checkPassword($usernam,$password,$hash,$key=NULL);

Thanks in Advance

Piranha

I think that you have misunderstood a few things. We are here to help people out, not doing their job or school work for them. Program it yourself and if you have a specific problem post here and you might get help.

new_programmer

Piranha wrote:
I think that you have misunderstood a few things. We are here to help people out, not doing their job or school work for them. Program it yourself and if you have a specific problem post here and you might get help.

Piranha,

Sorry if I offended you in any way by posting my question.

You don't have to answer the above question if you don't want to. I posted this question, thinking there may be someone kind enough to put me in right direction. I'm a newbie, I can write simple php functions but this function has some complex functionality(atleast to me).

Thanks

Piranha

I am not offended by your question. I am however offended by your attitude, that you should not even have to make an effort to solve the problem. But others should do the work for you. I recommend this before you post about help in any forums again.

I can honestly say that if I didn't know the answer or just didn't want to answer I would not have. I posted in this thread in educational purposes only.

new_programmer

Piranha wrote:
I am not offended by your question. I am however offended by your attitude, that you should not even have to make an effort to solve the problem. But others should do the work for you. I recommend this before you post about help in any forums again.

I can honestly say that if I didn't know the answer or just didn't want to answer I would not have. I posted in this thread in educational purposes only.

May be someone has already worked on this function and they probably already have made their effort. So why waste time, we are all here to help. If I wrote a function that took me 2 hours .. and someone else need the same function.. i would just post it. I wouldn't want that person to waste time.

Once he/she has that solution, instead of wasting time writing on his/her own, they can see the solution and learn from it in future. and learn something else with the time that they saved from my solution.

Thank you

dougal85

This can work with some functions, however, going around asking for functions - you will probably waste more time than just writing it.

Posting on a forum and hoping somebody might just have the answer for you comes across as a bit lazy.

either that or search for it, maybe somebody else has made one.

Your spec for the function is quite specific, so i'd be surprised if somebody out there that has done something similar will see this thread anyway.