Add Password Encryption to a Dreamweaver Login Form

With two simple changes you can add password encryption to your Dreamweaver login form. Dreamweaver will consider this an error and display two login user behaviors but regardless this method should work just fine. After inserting the code mentioned below you should not attempt to modify this login script via the log in user dialog provided by Dreamweaver. Instead, edit the code manually when making changes.

Right after the line of code:

$password=$_POST['password'];

Add this:

$encrypt_password=sha1($password);

You can add whatever type of encryption you would like in place of sha1.

Change this bit of code:

GetSQLValueString($loginUsername, "text"), GetSQLValueString($password, "text"));

Replace $password with $encrypt_password:

GetSQLValueString($loginUsername, "text"), GetSQLValueString($encrypt_password, "text"));

Conclusions: When sending password data over the internet it is always important to encrypt it. In case anyone hacks your server and reads the password database this is a safety net. Providing how simple this is to change I would have thought Adobe would have built this into Dreamweaver. We can probably expect this in a future release.