Re: $password= '*****' is this safe?

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$password= '*****' is this safe?

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Re: $password= '*' is this safe?

Sep 6th, 2006

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Originally Posted by went1180

may i ask if it is ok to create a $password variable with my real password as the string? it seems like mysql_real_escape_string() won't work because this function only works after the connection is made, but i've also read that php code is not actually viewable by a user...

I always wondered this myself,

But im not sure so you could just encrypt it anyway, there are functions in PHP that do this.

Last edited by Barnz : Sep 6th, 2006 at 7:17 pm.