[SOLVED] Character Replacement

[jeffrydell]

This seems simple enough, but I haven't found an easy answer in reading posts here or documentation on the official php site.  Thanks, in advance, for your patience.

 

I have a users table which includes username, password, and permission level.  In the admin screen of the website I would like to display a table of all the users, but don't want to display the passwords on that table ... instead I'd like to just display *s for each character.  So if the password was "fish", the table cell would read ****, if the password was phish, the table cell would read *****, etc.

 

I already know about the strlen() function which can tell me the length of the password string, but what do I use to tell php to "say" * once for each character in the string?

[penguin0]

Simple question, why dont you leave the password row out all togather?

[AndyB]

for ($i=0;$i<strlen($pass);$i++) {

    echo "*";

}

[jeffrydell]

That IS an option - but I don't learn how to do the character replacement by just leaving out the Password.  I'm trying to learn & grow a little.

 

The other answer is "I am curious".

[jeffrydell]

Oddly enough, Andy - that actually makes sense.  Thanks!  (Gotta learn to think like a super-genius ... I'll put that on my ToDo list for next week.)