Question

Here is a simple code. It doesn’t return any errors and also no result. Where can be a problem?

$salt = JUserHelper::genRandomPassword(32);
$crypted = JUserHelper::getCryptedPassword(base64_decode($this->OtherDB->loadObject()->Password), $salt);
$password = $crypted.':'.$salt;

//$password - b913a58019885777428774bacd622fd3:V62lC8MthS117GUDa2KJMN9lsk4E5VGo

$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$query = 'UPDATE `#__users` SET `#__users`.`password` = \''.$password.'\' WHERE `#__users`.`username` = \''.$username.'\'';
$db->setQuery($query);

Answer 1

You forgot to execute it

$db->setQuery($query);
$db->query();