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php password_hash and password_verify issues no match


I am trying out a new function from PHP 5.5 called password_hash().

No matter what i do the $hash and the $password wont match.

$password = "test";

$hash = "$2y$10$fXJEsC0zWAR2tDrmlJgSaecbKyiEOK9GDCRKDReYM8gH2bG2mbO4e";



if (password_verify($password, $hash)) {
    echo "Success";
}
else {
    echo "Error";
}

Solution

  • The problem with your code is that you are using the double quotation marks " instead of the single quotation marks ' when dealing with your hash.

    When assigning:

    $hash = "$2y$10$fXJEsC0zWAR2tDrmlJgSaecbKyiEOK9GDCRKDReYM8gH2bG2mbO4e";
    

    It's making php think you have a variable called $2y and another one called $10 and finally a third one called $fXJEsC0zWAR2tDrmlJgSaecbKyiEOK9GDCRKDReYM8gH2bG2mbO4e. Which obviously isn't the case.

    I noticed when turning on error reporting that the error:

    Notice: Undefined variable: fXJEsC0zWAR2tDrmlJgSaecbKyiEOK9GDCRKDReYM8gH2bG2mbO4e

    Was being thrown by PHP.

    Replace all your double quote marks with single quote marks to fix.

    E.g

    $hash = '$2y$10$fXJEsC0zWAR2tDrmlJgSaecbKyiEOK9GDCRKDReYM8gH2bG2mbO4e';
    

    Treats the whole hash as a literal string instead of a string with embedded variables.