Codeigniter return password in profile?

Question

(This is for a codeigniter project) I'm developing a user-profile page, that lists the user's profile very similarly to Stackoverflow's profile page.

I have a simple echo command in the view file:

<? echo $members->row()->password?>

This displays the md5 string. (I'm not too familiar with terms--I'm a beginner).

How can I display the password (like a password field) in the correct form?

Answer 1

This is the whole point of MD5, you can't decrypt. You can only match encrypted strings together to see if they are equal.

Wikipedia: MD5