<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.password.html">Password Hashing</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="password.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.password.html">Password Hashing</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.password" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> The password hashing API provides an easy to use wrapper around <span class="function"><a href="function.crypt.html" class="function">crypt()</a></span> and some other password hashing algorithms, to make it easy to create and manage passwords in a secure manner. </p> <p class="para"> This extension is available since PHP 5.5.0 but there is also an <a href="https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat" class="link external">» userland implementation</a> for PHP >= 5.3.7. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.password.html">Password Hashing</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="password.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.password.html">Password Hashing</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
