I like to read about hashing passwords and have read articles about how md5 and sha-1 could be deciphered albiet it would take 25 million dollar computer and time but still if you could take a password and split it into two pieces and md5 hashed the two pieces add a salt in between and bring the two pieces togethter and md5 hash that i.e.
<?php
$password = $_POST['password'];
$length=strlen($password);
$divide=round($length/2);
$pass=str_split($password, $divide);
$salt ="097ever";
$pass1=md5($pass[0]);
$pass2=md5($pass[1]);
$newpass=md5($pass1.$salt.$pass2);
?>
this might add a half hour to your 25 million dollar computer.