Title: Using/modifying WordPress database from my website
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Using/modifying WordPress database from my website

 *  [sponton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sponton/)
 * (@sponton)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usingmodifying-wordpress-database-from-my-website/)
 * I’m currently hosting a website with wordpress installed in one of the subfolders.
   My website already contains an authentication system and I didn’t want the users
   to go through the hassle of having a different one for the wordpress part of 
   the site, I decided to join these two together.
 * The problem begins with the authentication system itself. I decided to get rid
   of mine and use that of WordPress. I tried including the wordpress files (both
   separately and in conjuction) by including them in my php code [ include “wp-
   config.php”, pluggables, etc.] but somehow this messes up my access to the sql
   database.
 * Since the encrypting of the password uses salt and some other rather different
   stuff, I need to call the wp_hash_password ( ) function (i think) to add the 
   given hash as the password in the database, but I don’t know how it keeps giving
   me a different hash everytime I run it and as i’m saying it does encrypt the 
   password but it doesn’t let me add it to the database by some unknown reason,
   and if the password keeps changing I have no clue which function then I must 
   use to check whether it is the correct one. I think I need to include only the
   specific function that will allow me to encrypt the password and compare the 
   encrypted password with that of the DB without having a random key to encrypt
   it. The other thing i could do is to disable this sort of authentication and 
   use md5 only (which i’m not sure how to do) but this would somehow make me feel
   as if this thing beat me so i’m not considering this option,
 * Any thoughts, ideas or anything that can help me?! thanks in advance

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 * [hash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hash/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)
 * [wp-config](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-config/)

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