[dmm2020]

Thanks. Salt is what I mean. Not sure why I said seed.

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Here is my problem. This is not a real salt but it shows the special characters I am running into. I changed the alphanumeric characters.

6K)Gf"Y@LqQs|{N_ 6K)Gf"Y@LqQs|{N_ 0 [49]

This is what I see in phpMyAdmin and when I print_r($res) of the particular record I testing with.

What I get with the below code:

$userhash = $res[0]['hash'];

is this output: 6K)Gf"Y@LqQs|{N_

It seems almost like something changed in PHP because if something funky is in the hash character wise, the string is getting chopped. Is there a way around this?

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To explain what I am after, I want to set up a licensing site where the members login to the website using the same credentials as they use in the forum, but still a separate login, that is not sharing sessions. However, the above problem is stopping me and has me stumped as to what is causing PDO to chop part of it. Do I need to set a character set or something in the database?