How can I be sure that my data is stored in elgg database?

Question

I have usersettings directory in my plugin that add automatically configure your tools section. users can create secret and qrcode of this secret. I wrote action for saving secret and when click save button the secret have been saved in textbox. how can I be sure that my secret is stored in database?Does anyway to see it in database?Is there in metadata? thanks

Answer 1

You can connect to database manually and see for yourself using ie. phpmyadmin or mysql cli interface. Look at table private_settings

Alternatively you can just use elgg_get_plugin_user_setting to dump the setting value.