password security in PHP

Question

What method would you call safest and most secure? I took these snippets off php.net. I\'m just wondering because people posted their own and I just couldn\'t catch on to u

Answer 1

Is it just 5 different ways to do almost the same? I think the learning objective here is to understand the importance of salting passwords. The best way to salt is to use as much salt as possible and the salt string includes as many crazy characters as possible.