I am not sure if this is the right forum to post this in but, I am writing a flash version to my XOOPS site but I would like to be able to keep one set of tables only and use certain tables with the site. I would like in particular to use the user table to assist in login and client information. My problem is that the password field is encrypted and i am not sure which function I need to reference to decrypt it like it does when i log in through xoops. If i reference the password field directly i get the encrypted text and i can't use it for validation.

Can anyone tell me what function and file i need reference in order to be able to decrpt the password field?

The password field is md5 encrypted. Its a one way encryption so no sir you can´t decrypt it.
(no hacking discussion about finding a similar hash please dear readers - thats not the topic)

So basicly if you create your own flash login you will have to get a md5 hash of the password the user entered and compare that to the value in the database.



For starters:

http://flashexperiments.insh-allah.com/md5.html

http://www.sephiroth.it/proto_detail.php?id=51