PHPmyadmin password of users

Question

I've a question about PHPmyadmin. I've created a database for a social and i've setted this things in the table -id -user -password -email

The question is: can i see the password of the users that are registered to my website or not? because now i can see the fisrt user that was registered password but the others have a strange alphanumerics value. thanks.

Answer 1

If you can see the others password as plaintext then you are doing something wrong, or you are Facebook;)

Password should be hashed and then stored in the database of your system. They shouldn't be in plaintext. You can hash passwords using PHP's built-in password handling functionality .

To sum up: Yes you can see the password in the database if you store them as plaintext directly. If you hash them, then you will see what you called "strange alphanumerics values".