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Defined in

libraries/joomla/user/helper.php

Methods

Method name	Description
activateUser	Method to activate a user
getUserId	Returns userid if a user exists
getCryptedPassword	Formats a password using the current encryption.
getSalt	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.
genRandomPassword	Generate a random password

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.user.helper' );