Joomla 3.3 - How to store user password? - php

Question

i'm trying to store user password in a plugin using joomla 3.3.6.
According to Joomla Documentation : https://docs.joomla.org/Inserting,_Updating_and_Removing_data_using_JDatabase
I created the following function :
/**
*
* Update Password
*
* #param unknown $idUser
* #param unknown $password
*/
public function updateUserPassword($idUser, $password) {
// Create a new query object.
$query = $this->db->getQuery ( true );
$value = JUserHelper::hashPassword($password);
// Prepare the insert query.
$query->update('#__users')
->set('password = ' . $this->db->quote($value))
->where('id = ' . $idUser);
// Set the query using our newly populated query object and execute it.
$this->db->setQuery ($query);
$updateResult = $this->db->execute ();
if ($updateResult == false) {
$errorMsg = $this->db->getErrorMsg ();
var_dump($errorMsg);
} else {
echo "Update Done";
}
}
This code is executed without any error or warning but the user record in table users remains unchanged.
$query value is :
UPDATE #__users
SET password = '$2y$10$hO2MfDLfG5ICy2yhZWXZG.GCQ89vYw26KHVisXuuD8baRU9WtuDR.'
WHERE id = 192
$query looks fine. Executing the query in mysqlworkbench by replacing #__ with my custom db prefix returns ok and i can see changes in db.
However the php code doesn't work.
Anyone have a clue about this ?
Dev.
EDIT
Code Change : Adding error handling in execute statement.
The message "Update Done" is printed.

Answer 1

From your code snippet, I don't see how you've determined that the code is executing without any error.
From the Joomla documentation
https://api.joomla.org/cms-3/classes/JDatabaseDriver.html#method_execute
your execute statement should have a return value of either a cursor or false.
$updateResult = $this->db->execute();
if($updateResult == false) {
$errorMsg = $this->db->getErrorMsg();
//display this in your method of choice
}
Depending on your server, there may also be an web server error log entry. On my LAMP development machine, it's in /var/log/apache2/error_log
Alternate method to modify a Joomla table record
$user_record = new stdClass();
$user_record->id = $idUser;
$user_record->password = $password;
$result = JFactory::getDbo()->insertObject('#__users', $user_record, $idUser);