Password encoding -- Help need

[computerzworld]

I am having one query regarding password encoding technique of vanilla forum. When I registered one user account over there its encoding password. And this password contains the string starting with $ and containing some characters in it. Please tell me what kind of encoding technique is this? Because I want to add users from another table using query. Thanks in advance...

[Weedpacket]

Could be anything.

[djjjozsi]

its name is $P$

you can see its class in People.Class.PasswordHash.php in your
library/People folder.

[computerzworld]

thanks for reply....
i will see it & try to solve my problem....
thanks once again...

[computerzworld]

I 've checked class People.Class.PasswordHash.php & I want to use it for generating password. Which function I have to use & how so that user can log in using that?