JUserHelper
Description
Authorization helper class, provides static methods to perform various tasks relevant to the Joomla user and authorization classes
This class has influences and some method logic from the Horde Auth package
Located in /joomla/user/helper.php (line 26)
JUserHelper (Subpackage User)
Method Summary
static 
string
getCryptedPassword
(string $plaintext, [string $salt = ''], [string $encryption = 'md5-hex'], [boolean $show_encrypt = false])
Methods
Method to activate a user
boolean
activateUser
(string $activation)
- string $activation: Activation string
Generate a random password
string
genRandomPassword
([int $length = 8])
- int $length: Length of the password to generate
Formats a password using the current encryption.
string
getCryptedPassword
(string $plaintext, [string $salt = ''], [string $encryption = 'md5-hex'], [boolean $show_encrypt = false])
- string $plaintext: The plaintext password to encrypt.
- string $salt: The salt to use to encrypt the password. [] If not present, a new salt will be generated.
- string $encryption: The kind of pasword encryption to use. Defaults to md5-hex.
- boolean $show_encrypt: Some password systems prepend the kind of encryption to the crypted password ({SHA}, etc). Defaults to false.
Returns a salt for the appropriate kind of password encryption.
Optionally takes a seed and a plaintext password, to extract the seed of an existing password, or for encryption types that use the plaintext in the generation of the salt.
string
getSalt
([string $encryption = 'md5-hex'], [string $seed = ''], [string $plaintext = ''])
- string $encryption: The kind of pasword encryption to use. Defaults to md5-hex.
- string $seed: The seed to get the salt from (probably a previously generated password). Defaults to generating a new seed.
- string $plaintext: The plaintext password that we're generating a salt for. Defaults to none.
Returns userid if a user exists
int
getUserId
(string $username)
- string $username: The username to search on