Crypting

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I never really understood how to make php encrypt passwords into a mysql database. Could someone please explain for me? Thankyou -- and sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

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I believe you can use the md5($string) function... that's how vB does it. Just insert into the database with md5($password) and decode it the same way. I might be wrong though.

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When creating the password, send the user the un-encrypted password. Then store the encrypted password in a DB. When checking a password, encrypt the password provided by the user (prolly via form submission) against the previosly encrypted password in the DB. You're basically compairing two encrypted strings.

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