Hi, all please help me in this, Iam using MYSQL , my colomn is password varchar(12) >insert into tablepassword values ('',password('def')); it is executed, (select * from tablepassword) showing the password is hashed, and then to view the record using 'where' : >select * from tablepassword where password=password('def'); display empty set, how to solve this? Thanks in advance. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Hadi Tjen -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php