INSERT password($userpassword) INTO MySQ

[Anon]

hello!
i have this problem.
i have a registration script with php and mysql. In the password field i encrypt the $userpassword with this command password($userpassword) in the SQL query.

But now i want to retrieve the password of the user but not encrypted. As he typed it.
Can i do that?

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No. password() is one-way.
That's why so many websites have a 'reset password' option that simply creates a new password and emails that to the user,
or an 'email hint' function that emails a user-defined hint about what the password is.