Dear friends, I am quite new to MySql and database development in general. I am doing my first db ever. I came across a problem following the instructios in teh book beginning PHP4 by Wankyu et al., Wrox.
The exercise is to create a user table, contaning user id?s and passwords. The authentification is done by selecting rows with same username and password entered in a form. So fas so good. The problem is that they insists that to make the whole thing more secure, we user de Password MySql server function. So we select form the table username and Password(password). And it doesn?t work for me. I have check direct, by entering the commands direct on a shell window and what hapens is that if I create an account with INSERT ...., using as password, for expample PASSWORD(?123456?), I see that for this string it alwais creates de same encryptede string, when I repit de command. But if I say SELECT PASSWORD(?123456?) a different string is created, hence not matchind the one stored, and making the script mentioned in de book anworkable. Does any one who is more expereinced than me on this matters have an explanation for this? I would be very thankful. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
