password_verify($p, $row['passward'])

[x_wd11]

I do NOT understand this:  "password_verify($p, $row['passward'])"
 where: $p = 123456
 while this is in DB: ba3253876aed6bc22d4a6ff53d8406c6ad864195ed144ab5c87621b6c233b548baeae6956df346ec8c17f5ea10f35ee3cbc514797ed7ddd3145464e2a0bab413

???

if (empty($errors)) { // If everything's OK.
        $q = "SELECT user_id, first_name, passward FROM users WHERE user='xyz' AND passward=SHA2('$p', 512)";
        $r = mysqli_query($dbc, $q); // Run the query.
        
        // Check the result:
        if (mysqli_num_rows($r) == 1) {
            // Fetch the record:
            $row = mysqli_fetch_array($r, MYSQLI_ASSOC);
            
            // Return true and the record:
           // Check the password:
            if (password_verify($p, $row['passward'])) {
                unset($row['passward']);
                return [true, $row];
            } else {
                $errors[] = 'The user name and password do not match those on file.';
            }           //   - The user name and password entered do not match those on file.  ????
            
        } else { // Not a match! 
            $errors[] = 'The user-name and password entered do not match those on file.';
        }

 

[x_wd11]

I think I got it, I got some mess in those scripts, cannot keep track of them somehow. Wrong script, but it was working and then it quit, that is why I got confused, the later scripts do have a different setup and so easy to get carried away with the implementation that should be using different script.