Clear Text Password

[eluser]jtmgdevelopment[/eluser]
Hello,

I am trying to post to an API service a clear text password i.e password12345 and not a hash password: 47544b332d1b13bb57f9a8f37469aabc

For some reason when I create a data array with the following:

Code:

$person = array(
                'fName' => $this->input->post('fname'),
                'lName' => $this->input->post('lname'),
                'password' => $this->input->post('password'),
                            
            );

The password has already been encrypted. I need this to be clear text human readable. Any ideas?