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| -rw-r--r-- | engine/lib/sessions.php | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | engine/lib/web_services.php | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/engine/lib/sessions.php b/engine/lib/sessions.php index 9982d9fe8..419d36707 100644 --- a/engine/lib/sessions.php +++ b/engine/lib/sessions.php @@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ function elgg_is_admin_user($user_guid) { /** * Perform user authentication with a given username and password. * + * @warning This returns an error message on failure. Use the identical operator to check + * for access: if (true === elgg_authenticate()) { ... }. + * + * * @see login * * @param string $username The username diff --git a/engine/lib/web_services.php b/engine/lib/web_services.php index 07be76ec6..da3ed76a9 100644 --- a/engine/lib/web_services.php +++ b/engine/lib/web_services.php @@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ function list_all_apis() { * @access private */ function auth_gettoken($username, $password) { - if (elgg_authenticate($username, $password)) { + if (true === elgg_authenticate($username, $password)) { $token = create_user_token($username); if ($token) { return $token; |