Most programmers are familiar with the ternary operators, and while most languages have their own way of performing shorthand conditional ternaries, however since PHP 5.3 supported was added to do this by leaving out the middle part of the condition.

Password hashing algorithms can make or break a database leak.  While every endeavour should be made to protect a site database, unfortunately sometimes this has proven unsuccessful for even the largest of sites.

Regardless of what language you use, Bcrypt provides a secure way to store encrypted passwords for just about any online system today.