Re: Case sensitive password

Nathan, Thank you ... very thorough. Best R.C. ""Nathan Nobbe"" <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote in message news:7dd2dc0b0806182145l55f67b29l84218f0a7331ea0e@mail.gmail.com... > i hate posting the same answer to a given question thats already been > posted, but i had this all typed in when chris submitted his answer, so here > it is again.. > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:36 PM, R.C. <rme@besttranslation.org> wrote: > > > I have coded a php page that accepts a password. What is the code to make > > sure the password entered is NOT case-sensitive? > > > when you store the password, you can store it as all upper or all lowercase, > then when comparing against the stored value, do the same operation to the > value supplied from the user, and compare those. and you dont have to > modify the original value if you dont want to, when you store it. just > remember to alter both the stored value and the user-supplied value when > doing comparisons. > > /// here is an example comparison > // get password value from db for user, put it in $storedPassword > // suppose the value the user supplied in a form is in variable > $userSuppliedPassword > // now for the case insensitive comparison > if(strtolower($storedPassword) == strtolower($userSuppliedPassword)) > // passwords are the same > else > // passwords are different > > also note in the above example, there is no encryption of the password, > which you almost certainly want to have ;) > > -nathan >