JUserHelper::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.

Signature

public function getSalt([string
        $encryption = 'md5-hex',
            [string
        $seed = '',
            [string
        $plaintext = '']]] )

Parameters

$encryption: The kind of password encryption to use.
$seed: The seed to get the salt from (probably a
$plaintext: The plaintext password that we're generating

Returns

string: The generated or extracted salt.