This article will briefly explain the Joomla 1.0.x encryption scheme.

This information is useful if you are in a position where you have access to your database, but have forgotten the password to the Joomla administrator. 

In order to create a new password simply add it to the $password variable in the variable that follows.

$newPassword = "Enter A Plain Text Password Here"; $password = trim($newPassword); $salt = mosMakePassword(16); $crypt = md5($password.$salt); $password = $crypt.':'.$salt; echo 'Your new encrypted password is: ' . $password; function mosMakePassword($length=8) { $salt = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"; $makepass = ''; mt_srand(10000000*(double)microtime()); for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) $makepass .= $salt[mt_rand(0,61)]; return $makepass; }