> For every password that I store in the database I have found it is the > same string of characters no matter what the original $password is. That is because you have single quotes around your variable so it is not being expanded, so everytime it is the MD5 of the same thing, the string $password. > $pass = MD5('$password'); Change it to MD5($password); or MD5("$password"); -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php