diff --git a/DBSyn/MainView.swift b/DBSyn/MainView.swift
index 4ac1831..cec16ea 100644
--- a/DBSyn/MainView.swift
+++ b/DBSyn/MainView.swift
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import Charts
 import AppKit
 import CryptoKit
 import UniformTypeIdentifiers
+import Security
 
 // MARK: - Classic Workbench Colours
 
@@ -7476,6 +7477,7 @@ private struct DBSynInlineRowEditor: View {
     @State private var values: [String]
     @State private var executing = false
     @State private var errorText: String?
+    @State private var passwordColumnIndex: Int?
 
     init(model: DatabaseModel, database: String, table: String,
          columns: [String], original: [String]) {
@@ -7554,6 +7556,15 @@ private struct DBSynInlineRowEditor: View {
                             TextField(columns[i], text: $values[i])
                                 .textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
                                 .disabled(primaryIndices.contains(i) || executing)
+                            if isLaravelPasswordColumn(i) && !primaryIndices.contains(i) {
+                                Button {
+                                    passwordColumnIndex = i
+                                } label: {
+                                    Label("Laravel Password…", systemImage: "key.fill")
+                                }
+                                .disabled(executing)
+                                .help("Generate a Laravel bcrypt password hash for this field")
+                            }
                             if primaryIndices.contains(i) {
                                 Text("PRIMARY KEY").font(.caption).foregroundStyle(.secondary)
                             }
@@ -7590,6 +7601,22 @@ private struct DBSynInlineRowEditor: View {
         }
         .padding(20)
         .frame(width: 780, height: 620)
+        .sheet(item: Binding(
+            get: { passwordColumnIndex.map { PasswordFieldSelection(index: $0) } },
+            set: { passwordColumnIndex = $0?.index }
+        )) { selection in
+            DBSynLaravelPasswordGenerator { hash in
+                guard values.indices.contains(selection.index) else { return }
+                values[selection.index] = hash
+                passwordColumnIndex = nil
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private func isLaravelPasswordColumn(_ i: Int) -> Bool {
+        guard columns.indices.contains(i) else { return false }
+        let name = columns[i].lowercased()
+        return name == "password" || name == "password_hash"
     }
 
     private func apply() {
@@ -7616,6 +7643,168 @@ private struct DBSynInlineRowEditor: View {
 }
 
 
+// MARK: - Laravel bcrypt password generation
+
+private struct PasswordFieldSelection: Identifiable {
+    let index: Int
+    var id: Int { index }
+}
+
+private enum LaravelBcryptService {
+    enum HashError: LocalizedError {
+        case noPHP
+        case failed(String)
+        var errorDescription: String? {
+            switch self {
+            case .noPHP:
+                return "PHP CLI was not found. Install PHP or specify its full executable path. Laravel bcrypt requires PHP's password_hash()."
+            case .failed(let message): return message
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    static func randomPassword(length: Int = 24) -> String {
+        let alphabet = Array("ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz23456789!@#%+=")
+        var bytes = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count: length)
+        guard SecRandomCopyBytes(kSecRandomDefault, bytes.count, &bytes) == errSecSuccess else {
+            return "" // Do not silently fall back to a weaker generator
+        }
+        // Rejection sampling prevents modulo bias.
+        var result = ""
+        for byte in bytes where Int(byte) < (256 / alphabet.count) * alphabet.count {
+            result.append(alphabet[Int(byte) % alphabet.count])
+        }
+        while result.count < length {
+            var byte: UInt8 = 0
+            guard SecRandomCopyBytes(kSecRandomDefault, 1, &byte) == errSecSuccess else { break }
+            if Int(byte) < (256 / alphabet.count) * alphabet.count {
+                result.append(alphabet[Int(byte) % alphabet.count])
+            }
+        }
+        return String(result.prefix(length))
+    }
+
+    static func hash(_ plaintext: String, phpPath: String) throws -> String {
+        let candidates = [phpPath, "/opt/homebrew/bin/php", "/usr/local/bin/php", "/usr/bin/php"]
+        guard let executable = candidates.first(where: {
+            !$0.isEmpty && $0.hasPrefix("/") && FileManager.default.isExecutableFile(atPath: $0)
+        }) else { throw HashError.noPHP }
+
+        let process = Process()
+        process.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: executable)
+        // Read the secret from stdin, never expose it in command-line arguments.
+        process.arguments = ["-r", "$p = stream_get_contents(STDIN); $h = password_hash($p, PASSWORD_BCRYPT, ['cost' => 12]); if (!$h) { fwrite(STDERR, 'bcrypt failed'); exit(1); } echo $h;"]
+        let input = Pipe()
+        let output = Pipe()
+        let errors = Pipe()
+        process.standardInput = input
+        process.standardOutput = output
+        process.standardError = errors
+        try process.run()
+        input.fileHandleForWriting.write(Data(plaintext.utf8))
+        try? input.fileHandleForWriting.close()
+        let result = output.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile()
+        let failure = errors.fileHandleForReading.readDataToEndOfFile()
+        process.waitUntilExit()
+        let hash = String(decoding: result, as: UTF8.self).trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
+        guard process.terminationStatus == 0,
+              hash.range(of: #"^\$2y\$12\$[./A-Za-z0-9]{53}$"#, options: .regularExpression) != nil else {
+            let message = String(decoding: failure, as: UTF8.self)
+            throw HashError.failed("PHP bcrypt hashing failed: " + (message.isEmpty ? "Invalid hash output" : message))
+        }
+        return hash
+    }
+}
+
+private struct DBSynLaravelPasswordGenerator: View {
+    @Environment(\.dismiss) private var dismiss
+    let onUseHash: (String) -> Void
+    @State private var plaintext = ""
+    @State private var hashed = ""
+    @State private var phpPath = ""
+    @State private var showPassword = false
+    @State private var busy = false
+    @State private var errorText: String?
+
+    var body: some View {
+        VStack(alignment: .leading, spacing: 14) {
+            Label("Laravel Password Generator", systemImage: "key.fill")
+                .font(.title2.bold())
+            Text("Creates a Laravel-compatible bcrypt hash (cost 12) for a users.password field. Requires PHP CLI.")
+                .foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+            HStack {
+                if showPassword {
+                    TextField("Plaintext password", text: $plaintext)
+                } else {
+                    SecureField("Plaintext password", text: $plaintext)
+                }
+                Button("Generate") {
+                    plaintext = LaravelBcryptService.randomPassword()
+                    hashed = ""
+                    errorText = nil
+                }
+                Button(showPassword ? "Hide" : "Show") { showPassword.toggle() }
+                Button("Copy Password") { copy(plaintext) }.disabled(plaintext.isEmpty)
+            }
+            HStack {
+                TextField("PHP executable path (optional)", text: $phpPath)
+                    .textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
+                Text("Uses Homebrew PHP automatically when available")
+                    .font(.caption).foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+            }
+            HStack {
+                Button(busy ? "Hashing…" : "Generate bcrypt Hash") { generateHash() }
+                    .disabled(plaintext.isEmpty || busy)
+                if busy { ProgressView().controlSize(.small) }
+            }
+            Text("bcrypt hash ($2y$12$)").font(.headline)
+            TextEditor(text: .constant(hashed))
+                .font(.system(.body, design: .monospaced))
+                .frame(height: 86)
+                .border(Color(nsColor: .separatorColor))
+            if let errorText {
+                Text(errorText).foregroundStyle(.red).textSelection(.enabled)
+            }
+            Text("Copy the plaintext password before closing. It cannot be recovered from its hash.")
+                .font(.caption).foregroundStyle(.secondary)
+            HStack {
+                Button("Copy Hash") { copy(hashed) }.disabled(hashed.isEmpty)
+                Spacer()
+                Button("Cancel") { dismiss() }
+                Button("Use Hash in Row") { onUseHash(hashed); dismiss() }
+                    .buttonStyle(.borderedProminent)
+                    .disabled(hashed.isEmpty || busy)
+            }
+        }
+        .padding(20)
+        .frame(width: 750)
+        .onChange(of: plaintext) { _, _ in hashed = "" }
+    }
+
+    private func copy(_ value: String) {
+        NSPasteboard.general.clearContents()
+        NSPasteboard.general.setString(value, forType: .string)
+    }
+
+    private func generateHash() {
+        let secret = plaintext
+        let path = phpPath
+        busy = true
+        errorText = nil
+        Task {
+            do {
+                let value = try await Task.detached(priority: .userInitiated) {
+                    try LaravelBcryptService.hash(secret, phpPath: path)
+                }.value
+                if plaintext == secret { hashed = value }
+            } catch {
+                errorText = error.localizedDescription
+            }
+            busy = false
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 // MARK: - Connection Manager
 private struct DBSynConnectionManager: View {
     @ObservedObject var model: DatabaseModel