Partly hiding a password

Ben

I need some help with a registration script that I am creating!

Before the account of a user is created, they have to verify their information that they have submitted. What I want to do is to show their password, but only some of the characters are replaced by an asterix.

For example if the password was 'password', it would show as something like: 'pass****'

Does anybody know how to do this with PHP-4?

Thanks!
Ben

Kaneda

I think I understand the thought behind doing it, but don't agree with it. Usually you'll put two password fields (Confirm password), so the user has already verified the password, and doesn't really need to verify it again. But anyway, to answer the question...

The only thing I guess you're asking for is a statement to replace the last characters of the password value with asterisks. If so, simply do something like:

Ben

Thanks very much for that. I understand the problems with showing some of the password. Although I will show it with asterixes on the verification page, it was mainly for the welcome email that will be sent.

I have used the 'confirm password' technique as well Very Happy

You are right in presuming that the user cannot edit the data on the verification page.

Cheers!
Ben