Hashing a password

Question

I have built a login form but not a sign up form so i am putting the users details directly into the sql database.
I have found out that cakephp automatically hashes the password when the user tries to login, but at the moment I cant login because the password in the database is not hashed.
how does cakephp hash the passwords?

My security salt is Dhhfei38fhDg37dg6Dg208Dh3h380Hrjd3

Could you please walk me through what it does?

Answer 1

Hashed passwords in cakephp are created by:

$hashedPasswords = Security::hash($yourPass, NULL, true);

Check the cakephp manual for more info