[FX.php List] Storing logins for clients

[Denis Somar]

For the record, our sites should never actually store the password on the
DB side.  You should store an encryption of the password for moderate
security sake.  MD5 is a simple hash but crackable and PHP has all sorts of
"salted" encryption methods for obscuring the user passwords stored in a DB.

As for your question about storing some form of Remember Me? checkbox,
you'll need a persistent cookie to store some flag that the user is logged
in.

HTH,
Denis



On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> One of my clients is asking if I can 'store' their logins (or at least
> their usernames) like many sites do.
>
> Upon searching, I saw that using setcookie() was frowned upon, for obvious
> reasons; have any of you done this, and if so, do you have any code you
> could share?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob Patin
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