[TYPO3-english] form field type encrypt data into database

[Andrew Davis]

Anyone, is my thinking right on this? Any advice much appreciated, thanks

Andrew



Andrew Davis <andrew at avagraphique.com> wrote:

> Dawid Pacholczyk <dpacholczyk at gmail.com> wrote:

>>  Andrew Davis pisze:
>>>   hi

>>>   i searched the newsgroup and am not finding what i am looking for.

>>>   i want to make a form to collect some user information, and save that 
>>>   to a database table. I want to encrypt some of the fields. is there any
>>> functionality in typo3 to do this already or do i need to make a custom
>>> extension to do the encrypting?

>>>   I was goign to use t-mailform to do the database insertion, as it is 
>>>   pretty nice to use for that. I wonder if that could be extended to 
>>>   encrypt some of the fields.

>>>   any help or advice is much appreciated

>>>   thanks

>>>   andrew
>>>     
>>  You can always try to use kickstarter and improve extension to your own
>> needs. It`s not so hard like creating new extension :)

>>  Best regards,
>>  Dawid Pacholczyk
> Hi david, thanks for your reply!! Yes i can use kickstarter, but the question
> is, which piece of typo do i extend for this one, form field encrypting 
> function?

> On the back-end this would be easy enough to decrypt, as i have an extension
> to list the entries.

> on the front-end, i am using tmailform for the form input. so are you
> suggesting i make an extension to the tmailform extension, to intercept the
> form field data from the form and encrypt it when it is sent along to the 
> database...

> this is the source of the formfield:

> <code>
> <input type="text" name="tx_pilmailform_pi1[text][ssn]" value="" size="5" 
> maxlength="4">
> </code>


> I could encrypt the data from the field tx_pilmailform_pi1[text][ssn] right
> before tmailform performs the db insert.

> does this seem a sensible thing to do?

> Thanks for any advice,
> Andrew


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