How can I store my users' passwords safely?

Question

How much more safe is this than plain MD5? I\'ve just started looking into password security. I\'m pretty new to PHP.

$salt = \'csdnfgksdgojnmfnb\';

$passwo         


        

Answer 1

Your users will be much safer if you used parameterized queries instead of concatenating SQL statements. And the salt should be unique for each user and should be stored along with the password hash.