Re: Getting substring for password checking

substr($string, 5); that'll take the 5th char and on hope this helps ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Edison Jr. <thomasedisonjr@yahoo.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 1:56 AM Subject: [PHP] [PHP-GENERAL] Getting substring for password checking > We have a bunch of passwords in our database. We want > an authentication script that checks the first few > characters from the password string to match and > ignore the rest. > > For eg:-, let's say we got a bucnh of passwords > beggining with "X500.." and another bunch beggining > with "X600.." , we just have authenticate the password > sent by the user to match with either of these two, > irrispective of what characters follow, how can this > be done. > > In Javacsript we had the substring, charAt, indexOf > functions which could help in such a case. What do we > have in PHP to help with this? > > Tnanx, > > T. Edison jr. > > > > > > ===== > Rahul S. Johari (Director) > ****************************************** > Abraxas Technologies Inc. > Homepage : http://www.abraxastech.com > Email : abraxastech@yahoo.com > Tel : 91-4546512/4522124 > ******************************************* > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >