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Encrypted Fields


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Blackdog

Community Member, 156 Posts

3 April 2008 at 12:24am

Hi All,

Hoping someone can help me a with a little problem.

How can I get the users to fill in a varchar field and have it stored in a encrypted format in the database?

thanks.

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Fuzz10

Community Member, 791 Posts

3 April 2008 at 3:19am

Don't know if this is functional , but I found an EncryptField in the API ?

Did you try that ?

http://api.silverstripe.com/default/EncryptField.html

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Blackdog

Community Member, 156 Posts

3 April 2008 at 12:50pm

thanks Fuzz

I will check it out and return back with my findings.

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Sam

Administrator, 690 Posts

3 April 2008 at 9:29pm

EncyptField is just a deprecated duplicate of PasswordField.

To do what you've requested, you should define an onBeforeWrite() method on your DataObject.

This example will md5-encode the field "MyField".

function onBeforeWrite() {
  if(!$this->ID || $this->changed['MyField']) {
    $this->MyField = md5($this->MyField);
  }
}

Alternatively, if you need it to get encrypted straight away and not once the dataobject is written, you could define setMyField(). This is the function that is called when you go $obj->MyField = 'value';

function setMyField($value) {
  $this->setField('MyField', md5($value));
}

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Fuzz10

Community Member, 791 Posts

4 April 2008 at 1:06am

Ah...

As expected, SS offers an an elegant solution. ;-)

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Blackdog

Community Member, 156 Posts

4 April 2008 at 1:55am

that is fantastic.. thanks for the feedback.

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Blackdog

Community Member, 156 Posts

22 April 2008 at 3:51pm

Edited: 22/04/2008 4:10pm

Sam,

Your suggestion worked great, thanks.

My only problem now is I can't find where to decrypt the data for the Admin to view it.

If anyone has any advice I would be greatful.

thanks.

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(deleted)

Community Member, 473 Posts

22 April 2008 at 4:31pm

Assuming you used the md5 function, you can't reverse it.

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