How to decrypt Hash Password in Laravel

Question

I have google this alot, but unfortunatilty found no working solution.

I know its a bad technique, but I need to send user its password by email.

I have manage

Answer 1

Short answer is that you don't 'decrypt' the password (because it's not encrypted - it's hashed).

The long answer is that you shouldn't send the user their password by email, or any other way. If the user has forgotten their password, you should send them a password reset email, and allow them to change their password on your website.

Laravel has most of this functionality built in (see the Laravel documentation - I'm not going to replicate it all here. Also available for versions 4.2 and 5.0 of Laravel).

For further reading, check out this 'blogoverflow' post: Why passwords should be hashed.

Answer 2

For compare hashed password with the plain text password string you can use the PHP password_verify

if(password_verify('1234567', $crypt_password_string)) {
    // in case if "$crypt_password_string" actually hides "1234567"
}