UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? Using the USERS DB for other app login verification

I want to use the Users table to authenticate my users on other web pages also.
I'm coding in coldfusion, and when i look into the users table, the password is encrypted, how do unencrypt it to compare to what they are entering?

Also, unfortunately i'm not a PHP person, so how is the session validation carried once the user logs in succesfully?
Cookies? Session variables?

Thanks,
Thomas

you can't decrypt to a nice ascii representation.. it's an md5 hash.

so what you'll need to do is take the ascii from what they entered and md5 it, then compare with the DB..

Thanks, md5 is what i needed!

It's simple to compare using MD5, you'd have a form which would accept the user/pass, and your pass variable would be something like;
$pass = md5($_GET["pass"]);

You'd ofcoarse want to sanitize all user input however

Actually I’m using coldfusion to authenticate against the ubbt db. It uses HASH but i had to specify the algorithm to use.

Thanks Again.