<?php
function encrypt($password,$encryption){

        switch ($encryption){
        case "crypt":
                case "crypt":
                case "1":
                /* Obviousely the right way of crypting passwords with salts does not work when checking passwords
                against a stored one in the database. This affects changeadminpassword.php.

                As a workaround, the salt will be the cleartext password.

                In future it would be better to have a random salt and another solution for changadminpassword.php.
                This would probably means to abstract adminusers and accountusers in crypto.php
                */

                #$password=crypt($password,substr(md5(rand()),0,2));
                $password=crypt($password,$password);
                break;
        }

        // Encrypt should always return something - on plaintext unchanged input
        return $password;
}


$new_password = encrypt(lol, crypt);
//$query = "UPDATE accountuser SET password='$new_password' WHERE username='".$_POST['username']."'";

echo $new_password
?>