MySQL PASSWORD, PHP encrypt?

[Anon]

Does PHP have a function similar to the MySQL PASSWORD function that creates a 16 character hash of a string?

[Anon]

read manual

[Anon]

Look in the manual for the crypt function.

$passwd=crypt($passwd,$encryption_key);

I use this so I don't store any plain text passwords in my user database. I use substr($passwd,1,2) as my encryption key rather that using a universal key.

It seems to work pretty good except the fact that the passwords are still transmitted in plain text. Not a problem for my application because I am on an internal LAN.

Hopefully this will help a bit.