[SOLVED] need help with displaying password

[shadiadiph]

I have a view page where my user can view their username email and password etc calling the details from the database using.

 

$password    = $row["password"];

 

then using <?=$password?> to display it etc but the thing is i do not want to display the actual password for example password is 123456 i do not want to display it like this I want to display it like ******  the same length as the password any ideas?

[maxudaskin]

Here you go:

 

<?php
$password = '';
$passLength = strlen($row["password"]);
for($i = 0; $i <$passLength; $i++)
{
    $password .= '*';
}
echo $password;
?>

[jackpf]

Something like this-

 

$length = strlen($password);
for($i = 0; $i <= $length; $i++)
{
echo '*';
}

Hope this helps...

[jackpf]

LOL, put the exact same thing as you; great minds think alike

Actually, yours is probably better tbh, but it is 1:30am...

[maxudaskin]

Yeah...

 

Here is a commented version so you know what is happening.

<?php
$password = ''; // Declare the password so that you don't get an error
$passLength = strlen($row["password"]); // Get the password length
for($i = 0; $i <$passLength; $i++) // Loop to get the required amount of asterixes
{
    $password .= '*';
}
echo $password; // Output the masked password
?>

 

Edit:

Jackpf, your loop will run one too many times.

[shadiadiph]

thank you very much works fine