Password Field Data Type

[nrugado]

Working on Learning and Developing a website. I need to know what datatype to use for password. The front end will be php and I want the password to be encrypted. I will look into the encryption later, at this point, I just need the datatype.

 

[sleipnir214]

char? varchar?

There is no intrisic type that will perform the encryption for you. You can use MySQL builtin functions, such as md5() or sha1(), for that.

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