Encrypting password after a user registers and store into database

[alin82]

Task Tests

Test 1

1. Only team h members have access to team h's database.
2. Go to https://www-student.cse.buffalo.edu/tools/db/phpmyadmin
3. Login with UBIT as username and Person# as password, choose oceanus.cse.buffalo.edu:3306 as server choice.
4. On the navigation bar on the left, click on cse442_2023_spring_team_h_db to navigate to team's database
5. Click on users under cse442_2023_spring_team_h_db
6. Verify that password are encrypted correctly using PHP default encryption (Bcrypt). The password in the database was successfully hashed, and does not show the password as a text/string.

[ryanayam]

How can I verify that passwords are encrypted? what does being encrypted mean?