Try http://www.php.net/md5. Use md5 to encrypt the password, then when you need to check from login just encrypt what is given, and see if this matches the md5 found in the database.
- David "Rob Packer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > I use PayPal to generate a username and password and then write them to > the .htpasswd file. If I were to switch to using a database (because > .htaccess seems to always prompt twice!) how would I perform the comparison > for the passwords? It would seem that everytime you generate an encrypted > password it's different. So how would you compare them? Also, does anyone > know what the encryption method used by PayPal is? > > Thanks for any help... > > Robert Packer > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
