Butler, Shaun pressed the little lettered thingies in this order...
> check out the crypt() function
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php
>
> if you don't care about decrypting the password this works fine.
>
> --Shaun
>
Umm... You've misunderstood something. The reason why you would
WANT to use mcrypt is because you CAN decrypt data that it has
encrypted.
For encryption:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mcrypt-encrypt.php
For decryption:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mcrypt-decrypt.php
I use mcrypt when I need to store data that must be encrypted in the
DB, but must also be decrypted on the way out (including passwords
and credit card numbers). The only reason you would need to decrypt
passwords is if you want to view them or if you want to make it possible
to have passwords mailed to people who forget theirs.
If you don't need decrypt capabilities, most (all?) SQL database servers
have support for one-way encryption.
It's not efficient to store user data in "PHP scripts" (or any other script
for that matter) as was stated in the initial message. If you have access
to a database server, use it.
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