title: joomla password encryption
body: <p>I need to access the joomla user table <code>jos_users</code> for login checking from external php script [codeignitor].</p>
  
  <p>joomla storing password like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>4e9e4bcc5752d6f939aedb42408fd3aa:0vURRbyY8Ea0tlvnTFn7xcKpjTFyn0YT
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Looks like this is not the normal MD5 ,so i cannot use <code>md5(password)</code> .</p>
  
  <p>what is the possible way to create the password ?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>