Posted by Peter van Schie on 11/11/05 17:46

Greg Scharlemann wrote:
>
> I always get the same encoded string: 8f404d5399b6eb816fe579381a0e2e6c

Looks like an md5 hash.

> First, does PHP automatically encrypt the password type fields

No.

> and second, is that the correct way to get the password from a simple
> form or is there a better way of doing it?

The method is fine, but I can't tell why you get an md5 hash instead of
the plain password that was specified.

HTH.
Peter.
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