Verifying an md5 password against plain text?

[eluser]andrewtheandroid[/eluser]
depending on which you use in your database php has a corresponding hash function.

if you use md5 it's md5($str) and similar for sha1. sha is preferred over md5 as apparently md5 is considered unsafe. so in ur php code

Code:

$myDBPassword = ... // from ur database

if(md5($thisFormPassword)==$myDBPassword) { // true
} else { // invalid
}