How to enable password reset

Introduction

Enabling password reset allows users to change their FTP password from the log-in console. You'll need to write your own PHP function to handle the processes on your server.

Prerequisites

• A Host Edition license (purchase or trial now)
• An intermediate knowledge of server administration
• An intermediate knowledge of PHP

Steps

First you'll need to enable resetting passwords in your settings.json file. You can use our wizard to configure this.

Create a PHP file named mftp_extensions.php and save it to your /mftp folder.

Copy the contents of the box below into the file:

function mftpResetPasswordHandler($username,$currentPassword,$newPassword) { // Write your code here }

Monsta FTP will pass these three values to your function:

$username is the user's FTP login.
$currentPassword is the user's current FTP password.
$newPassword is the user's new password.

Your function can return one of the three following results:

1. If there's no result returned the language variable RESET_PASSWORD_SUCCEEDED will be displayed on-screen.
2. If a result is returned then it will be displayed on-screen (a language variable can be substituted in.)
3. An exception is raised, which if raised with a message, will be displayed on-screen, otherwise the language variable RESET_PASSWORD_FAILED will be displayed on-screen.