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Thank you so much for all your replies. Currently I am reading the book: Programming Php from O'relly, published in 2013, which is quite comprehensive. I've decided to bite the bullet and learn OOP and PDO and follow the other tutorial instead. But again thanks a lot for your help

Thank you very much for your replies. I think I should finally learn PDO and also OOP, found some really good tutorials for them. Also thank you very much for the password_compat link, but the other tutorial that I'm going to follow uses bcrypt(). Do you think that is fine or should I uses the password_compat code that you linked? I mean I know I have to use PDO but is bcrypt() fine to use or do I have to change the code from bcrypt() to password_compat after I have completed that tutorial? Thanks again for the help.

Hello, I've followed the whole series of Log in and registration system on the phpacademy channel on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE134D877783367C7 After reading some comments and doing some research I found that it uses md5 and old mysql_ function, which for some reason are 'deprecated' or not secure. I'm still not sure. Also, after doing some searching I came across: http://www.sunnytuts.com/article/login-and-registration-with-object-oriented-php-and-pdo which is another tutorial that is quite similar to the one on phpacademy, but it uses PDO and Object oriented programming and bcrypt instead of md5(). The problem is that I don't know OOP and I use procedural programming. So is it worth learning OOP and using bcrypt() instead of md5() or PDO instead of mysql? I mean, am I ok with using the code from phpacademy, or do I need to follow the other one and also learn OOP. Thank you very much.

Hello, I'm quite a new php developer, with about one year of experience. Really looking forward to helping and getting help on this forum.