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2 weeks 2 days ago - 2 weeks 1 day ago #338038 by zederis
Need advice please. was created by zederis
I have game server tables in the same database as joomla tables. I am using joomla user credentials to login ingame, but for that I have to sync joomla username and password to game tables anytime joomla user updates their credentials. I also must encrypt the password using sha1 before storing it. I am using auto actions plugin for that. onNewPassword to update password when user goes Forgot login. onAfterUserUpdate when user changes their password in profile settings. onFirstLogin to store user credentials for the first time. Using auto actions to run queries sounds nice, but then I don’t know how to encrypt the password before storing it. To run php code, I am not sure how to use joomla database inside auto actions plugin. I don’t want to create a new database connection using hostname, database, username and password. I want to use existing joomla DB connection. Please advice 🙂

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2 weeks 57 minutes ago #338046 by krileon
Replied by krileon on topic Need advice please.
You can use Joomla's API directly in your Code action PHP. You don't need to manually establish database connections to Joomla. You can also use CBs API as well. Below is an example of running a query with CBs API.
global $_CB_database;

$password	=	sha1( '[password]' );

$query		=	"UPDATE " . $_CB_database->NameQuote( '#__mytable' )
			.	" SET " . $_CB_database->NameQuote( 'password' ) . " = " . $_CB_database->Quote( $password )
			.	" WHERE " . $_CB_database->NameQuote( 'user' ) . " = " . $user->getInt( 'id', 0 );
try {
	$_CB_database->setQuery( $query );
	$_CB_database->query();
} catch ( RuntimeException $e ) {
	// Error Handling Here
}

That's all there is to it. Your query will run using Joomla database connection as our API just calls Joomla's own API. If using Joomla API keep in mind this is inline PHP you can't specify "use" statements (unless you opt to just include a php file) so you need to use the full PHP namespace path.

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