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PHP

Alan Bridge
Alan Bridge
1,935 Points
Posted by Alan Bridge
Alan Bridge
1,935 Points

Need help: base64/AES/password encryption coming from my app & i need to get the data decrypted in php,App fine PHP not.

I have on my app a script that takes my password 'mypassword' and the data 'hello world 123' and encrypts that with [hello world 123 AESEncryptWithPassphrase:my password]

then it takes that information and [base64 encode:EncryptsTheAboveData]

my question is how do i do this in reverse in PHP to get the data back.

Any help would go a long way.

1 Answer

Tunde Adegoroye
Tunde Adegoroye
20,597 Points
Tunde Adegoroye
Tunde Adegoroye
20,597 Points

If you want to encrypt a password in php you can use password_hash function and to decrypt it you can use the password verify function here's an example below

// To encrypt a password

$pass = "p@ssw0rd";

$encrpt_pass = password_hash($pass);

// This will show you the encrypted password
echo $encrpt_pass;

// To verify the encrypted password

// pretend this is the input of the user for the password field
$pass_Input = "p@ssw0rd""

// If it returns true
if(password_verify($pass_Input,$encrpt_pass)){

     echo "Successful password";
}
else {

    echo "Incorrect password";
}

Hope this helps this is the easiest and a very secure way of securing passwords in PHP