PHP Password verify always returns false

I'm using PHP's password hashing API to hash and verify my passwords on a site I'm building, however whenever I try and verify my password it always returns false. I have a User class which sets the password before they are inserted into the database: ``` public function set__password($passwd) { self::$password = password_hash($passwd, PASSWORD_BCRYPT, array('cost' => 12)); } ``` If the username and email is unique the new user row is inserted - upon checking my database I have what seems to be a valid BCRYPT string for my password: ``` $2y$12$lTMEP0wevDEMX0bzStzoyOEzOTIAi3Hyhd3nYjGwzbI ``` To verify my password, I run the following script: ``` $username = $_POST['username']; $password = $_POST['password']; $DB = Database::getInstance(); // Get the stored password hash $res = $DB->run__query('SELECT password FROM users WHERE username = "' . $username . '"'); $hash = $res[0]['password']; // Do the passwords match? if(password_verify($password, $hash)) { echo 'success'; } else { echo 'failed'; } ``` `$hash` pertains to the string quoted above, however when I then call `password_verify($password, $hash)` where `$password` is the plain-text password retrieved from my input field, I always receive a value of false.