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Password Hashing

Introduction

The password hashing API provides an easy to use wrapper around crypt() and some other password hashing algorithms, to make it easy to create and manage passwords in a secure manner.

Installing/Configuring
- Requirements
- Installation
Predefined Constants
Password Hashing Functions
- password_algos — Get available password hashing algorithm IDs
- password_get_info — Returns information about the given hash
- password_hash — Creates a password hash
- password_needs_rehash — Checks if the given hash matches the given options
- password_verify — Verifies that a password matches a hash