public function saveUser($passedUsername = "", $passedPassword = "")
{
/*
*Empty email model to create and commit
*New comments wont have an id or a timestamp, database handles that
*/
$userModel = new User_model();
/*
*TODO: move all the set methods into the constructor of the model
*TODO: find more elegant solution than hard coding sets
*TODO: add error checking to the commit method
*/
$userModel->setUsername($passedUsername);
/*
* Save password as hash so increase security
*/
$userModel->setPassword(hash("sha256", $passedPassword));
/*
* Commit the model to the database and send result back
*/
return $userModel->commit();
}