joomla password encryption

Question

I need to access the joomla user table jos_users for login checking from external php script [codeignitor].

joomla storing password like this

Answer 1

Joomla! uses PhPass.

root/libraries/phpass/PasswordHash.php

have a look here. you will see here how the password is generating.

The $2y is the default (and preferred) prefix on bcrypt hashes. As for code, you'll want to look inside JUserHelper's hashPassword and verifyPassword methods to see how Joomla's working with things right now.

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Some Referances -

https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/3.4.1/libraries/joomla/user/helper.php#L296-L387

https://docs.joomla.org/API15:JUserHelper/getCryptedPassword

https://docs.joomla.org/API15:JUserHelper/getSalt

Check the links, I hope you it will helpful :)