Best way to use PHP to encrypt and decrypt passwords? [duplicate]

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PHP 2-way encryption: I need to store passwords that can be retrieved

I plan to store foreign account information for my users on my website, aka rapidshare username and passwords, etc… I want to keep information secure, but I know that if I hash their information, I can’t retrieve it for later use.

Base64 is decrypt-able so there’s no point using that just plain off.
My idea is to scramble the user and pass before and after it gets base64ed that way even after you decrypt it, you get some funny looking text if you try to decrypt. Is there a php function that accepts values that will make an unique scramble of a string and de-scramble it later when the value is reinputed?

Any suggestions?

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