This is an awesome improvement. I agree with BPatrianakos that hashing has not been easy enough for the average PHP dev - we hear that a lot. As another option

This is an awesome improvement. I agree with BPatrianakos that hashing has not been easy enough for the average PHP dev - we hear that a lot. As another option, you can also just not build any password infrastructure. We do all the hashing and authorization as a secure service and there are PHP devs of all levels using it... http://www.stormpath.com/docs/php/quickstart http://www.stormpath.com/docs/php/quickstart