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If you are developing a password-protected web site, you have to make a decision about how to store user password information securely.

What is "secure," anyway? Realize that the data in your database is not safe. What if the password to the database is compromised? Then your entire user password database will be compromised as well. Even if you are quite certain of the security of your database, your users' passwords are still accessible to all administrators who work at the Web hosting company where your database is hosted. Scrambling the passwords using some home-brewed algorithm may add

These optimizations are fairly easy to apply to existing code and in some cases can result in big speedups. Remember the all-important maxim though, the fastest code is code that isn't called.

A neat list of tutorials solely on C/C++ function pointers.

Tutorial to show howto:

* Collect information about the user during signup and store that information into MySQL
* Generate a random password and encrypt it into the database
* Validate the user's email address before they can login
* Create a login system for the user to validate his/her information against the database
* Create a lost password recovery tool
* Basic Form handling with PHP
* Some PHP Session basics
* Use the Mail function to send the user an email
* And Much more!