passwords

Hello everyone,

I am wondering what the best or a good way to keep passwords secure was. Currently I have password field in a users table but the passwords are text.

Is this a bad idea and if so what other alternatives are there?

Thank you

 

md5...

Encrypt the password with md5 (php: md5() function)

When someone try to log in, you simply read the form password and encrypt thar too. So:

if ( md5($formpassword) === $database_stored_password ) {
   print 'successful login';
}
else {
  print 'YOU SUCK!!!';
}

Code (markup):

Cheers,

 

OK thank you very much *thumbs up*

 

Good idea......