Newbie question

Hello!
I am new to PhP and I need to make a simple login page. I searched the web for some tutorials and found this one: codervods.com/VideoPage.aspx?ID=915&&category=All
I want to know if there is any way to hide the password for some users who have acces to the database.

 

Are you talking about a database that stores the users usernames and passwords? Anything with in the <? code here ?> or the <?php code here ?> tags will not show up in the source code.

 

If you want to encrypt passwords in the database, you can use md5() function.

For example, when saving a password (for example apple), you will first encrypt it and then save in the database:

<?php
$str = md5("apple");

// Save $str in the database

?>

PHP:

When a user tries to login and you need to check if the password is valid, do the following:

<?php
$userpass = $_POST['mypassword'];

// $userpass contains the password got by the user

// Now get the encrypted password saved in the database. Suppose, it is stored in variable $dbpass

if (md5($userpass) == $dbpass)
    {
    echo "password is correct";
    }
else
    {
    echo "password is incorrect"; 
    }
?>

PHP:

 

Thanks, wowla_123. It really helped.