[FX.php List] FM accts vs. acct & password fields?

[Troy Meyers]

Chris,

I second that. It's great. The only complication is that for password recovery you need to make the user go through some hoops to create a new one, since you have no way of telling them the old one.

-Troy


> Not necessarily the case.  If you use PHP's crypt function
> (http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php  ) on the password
> before storing it in FileMaker, you've stored a   value which can be
> checked against, but cannot be viewed.  Have a look   at the function;
> very cool stuff.