Change password from external form

Bucaneer97,

Are you using EE’s profile update templates for this or a completely external form? Are you using any add-on to achieve this as I know you can do it with ease with Solspace’s User Module

To answer your question the function is called do_hash() and is in a file called system\codeigniter\system\helpers\security_helper.php

I am going to move this thread to our development forum as more appropriate there

Hi John,

Thank you for your answer, Actually am using a completely external form to create a profile with information included in expressionengine database an others that EE can’t hold for what I added other tables in DB, that’s why I need this function, by the way do you know how this function is used to create the key and the unique ID?

Hi everybody,

I still looking for the way how EE create the key and the unique ID

any help please?

The member_id is generated by MySQL. It is just an auto incrementing unsigned integer.

The password is the password the user supplied, but hashed using the do_hash() function. The do_hash() function will return a sha1 of the user-supplied password.

Thank you elvicmic,

What you said is great but my question is how to create the key and the unique ID for each user in exp_members normally if you create a user via EE interface it’s done automatically. In my case I’m creating users via an external form so for password I’m using do_hash(),but for key and the unique ID I don’t know which function I have to use for. that makes the function forgot password provided by EE unuseful for me

The unique_id is really just another sha1:

do_hash(uniqid(mt_rand(), TRUE), 'sha1');

And as far as I can tell the crypt_key is exactly the same too.

Thank you,

That was what I’m looking for.