Joomla! Documentation™

The "J1.5" namespace is an archived namespace. This page contains information for a Joomla! version which is no longer supported. It exists only as a historical reference, it will not be improved and its content may be incomplete and/or contain broken links.

The password parameter type provides a text box for entry of a password. The password characters will be obscured as they are entered. If the parameter has a saved value this is entered (in obscured form) into the text box. If not, the default value (if any) is entered.

Note that the password string is stored in params.ini in cleartext; the stored value is not obscured by any hash function. Since most web servers will, by default, serve a params.ini file if the URL is entered in a web browser, this cannot be considered a secure method of holding a password.

• type (mandatory) must be password.
• name (mandatory) is the unique name of the parameter.
• label (mandatory) (translatable) is the descriptive title of the field.
• size (optional) is the width of the text box in characters. If omitted the width is determined by the browser. The value of size does not limit the number of characters that may be entered.
• default (optional) is the default password.
• description (optional) (translatable) is text that will be shown as a tooltip when the user moves the mouse over the drop-down box.
• class (optional) is a CSS class name for the HTML form field. If omitted this will default to 'text_area'.

Example XML parameter definition:

<param name="mypassword" type="password" default="secret" label="Enter a password" description="" size="5" />

See also

• Text parameter type
• List of standard parameter types