Case sensitive issue when making login in PHP Laravel

Question

I have this code used to check login details. Specially to check password from user entered data and data in SQL.

if ($request->input('password') != $fromUser[0]->Password) {
    $currentStatus = "invalid_password";
  }

This code works well in my local machine. Checking case sensitive too. It mean when "$request->input('password')" = "DemoTest" and "$fromUser[0]->Password" = "demotest",
it's not matching and return false ($currentStatus = "invalid_password";).

But when I hosted this on server, this is not working. Not checking case sensitive and if above condition happened, it gives me true.
Why is that ? I hosted this in Windows server. But my local machine is Linux.

_"I hosted this in Windows server. But my local machine is Linux."_ this is your answer. — Antonios Tsimourtos, Jul 04 '17 at 14:11
@AntonisTsimourtos Is there any code or library i can use to fix this ? — Chanaka De Silva, Jul 04 '17 at 14:13
Check [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6134006/are-table-names-in-mysql-case-sensitive) — Antonios Tsimourtos, Jul 04 '17 at 14:13
More specifically for the data [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4879846/how-to-configure-mysql-to-be-case-sensitive) — Antonios Tsimourtos, Jul 04 '17 at 14:15
Also, use password hashing for storing passwords, and not storing them in plain text, which is a major security flaw. http://php.net/manual/en/faq.passwords.php or for lavarel specifically: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/hashing — Ignacy Debicki, Jul 04 '17 at 14:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '17 at 14:33

As you are dealing with Password then you need to use Hash code to store the password in DB and use strcmp to password match.
Try like this

$var1=Hash::make($var1);
if(strcmp($var1, $var2) != 0) {
    $currentStatus = "invalid_password";
 }

I thing it will work for you.

Case sensitive issue when making login in PHP Laravel

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