I am working on a little package using PHP and MySQL to handle entries for events. After completing an entry form the user will see all his details on a page called something like website.com/entrycomplete.php?entry_id=15 where the entry_id is a sequential number. Obviously it will be laughably easy for a nosey person to change the entry_id number and look at other people’s entries.
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I am trying to compare the MD5 string between PHP and Python, the server we have is working fine with PHP clients, but when we tried to do the same in python, we always get an invalid response from the server.
I’m making a php login, and I’m trying to decide whether to use SHA1 or Md5, or SHA256 which I read about in another stackoverflow article. Are any of them more secure than others? For SHA1/256, do I still use a salt?
I need to access the joomla user table jos_users for login checking from external php script [codeignitor].
I am using md5 to encrypt the passwords in my project.
In php is there a way to give a unique hash from a string, but that the hash was made up from numbers only?
I retrieve data from an external server for use with my android application. I would like this data to be only accessible with my app. I use a standard http connection to get the data from apache/php server in json format. I also send some params to the server to retrieve relevant data. Now, what I’m planning to do is:
What is the best way of generating a hash for the purpose of storing a session? I am looking for a lightweight, portable solution.
How to write functionToGenerateMD5hash for this code? I already have fileVideo and I need to send the corresponding md5 hash to the server by clicking on the button.
