Login Form

I forgot how it started, but today I looked at wordpress source codes and spontaneously decided to try making my own login form.

as you can see it’s still in its very most basic stage, but i play with it more when i get home (i did this over lunch reak at work). i wanna add the ability to change password and perhaps later even venture into storing cookies so that it’ll remember who you are. oooh, exciting.

all the password stored in the database is encrypted with md5 algorithm, so they are safe aka i won’t know your password even if i looked at my database and won’t be able to recover it even if i want to. if you’re interested in how md5 really works just click on that link, but in a nutshell it’s an algorithm that converts everything into a 128bit hash (aka 32 letters string). so it’s possible there will be a collision, but the chance of figuring out the “actual” password remains slim.