What is happening to the password when the user clicks submit?

[pianoman993]

When a user enters their password in the password field, what is happening to the password (specifically) to create the unique password alphanumeric combination in the user table? I know the password is being hashed and salted, what I really would like to know is how it is being hashed and salted. For example

$_GET['password'] = $password; (we got the password field)

MD5($password)... ? (what gets us to the password alphanumeric combination in the user's table?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

- Pianoman993

[Dismounted]

Did you search for this? Because I know I have posted it numerous times. (And so have other people.)
md5(md5($password) . $salt)