# md5

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/md5/149584>\
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**Created:** [May 30, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/md5/149584 "2005-05-30T21:47:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreamerp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dreamerp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dreamerp)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/md5/149584/1 "2005-05-30T21:47:47Z")

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Hello,  
I had a aquestion about md5 not too long ago and the person replied saying you can use the md5 command when inserting a password into a mysql database for protection purposes. But when I used something like md5($string) in the query it didn’t work. Could someone please help me?