Well, it's (intended to be) difficult. Perhaps you can NULL it out and
have them put in a new password...
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Zach Curtis wrote:
> I have a form for a user to request their forgotten username and password by
> entering their email address. I then process this and use mail() to send
> them their username and password. However, the password is stored in an
> encrypted PASSWORD('password') field in the MySQL table. How can I retrieve
> the decrypted password in a SELECT statement?
>
> For example, the following results in retrieving the encrypted password.
>
> $result = mysql_query("SELECT userName,password,email FROM members WHERE
> email='$email'");
> if (!$result)
> echo "<p>Could not execute database query:<br>" .
> mysql_error() . "</p>";
>
> $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
> $userName = "$row[userName]";
> $password = "$row[password]";
> $email = "$row[email]";
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Zach Curtis
> Programmer/Analyst
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