md5

programings at abv dot bg (2013-07-02 06:25:56)

This recursive function allow you to hash something in depth using md5().

<?php
function checksum($what, $depth = 1) {
$depth--;
if (!$depth)
return md5($what);
else
return md5(checksum($what, $depth));
}
?>

The function hashed the previous hash to md5() again and again for number of times and returns the last received hash.

Example usage:

<?php
for ($i = 1; $i <= 10; $i++) {
echo "$i. ".checksum("test", $i)."<br />";
}
?>

It can be used for security purposes.

anthonymccuen at yahoo dot com (2011-11-24 14:49:02)

If your going to hash a password or some other content, you can try the code below.

<?php
function hash_pass($password) {
$appKey = sha1($password);
    
$appId = 555;
$otherApp = '6cf6e971f7c125615a1ee20510c1c70f';     // simple md5
    
$appSaltKey = crypt($password);

$getStrLen = strlen($appKey);
$getIdLen = strlen($appId);
$randzStrInt = rand($appId, 999);

    if ($appId === 555) {
        $go = strlen($appKey);
        $other = strlen(crypt(md5(rand($appId, $appId))));
        $execute = rand($other, $appId) . "-" . rand($go, $appId) . "-" . rand(strlen(crypt($otherApp)), $appId);
        echo $execute . " today is <b>" . $date . "</b>";
    }
?>

Anonymous (2011-05-03 10:28:30)

This is not encryption..... it's only a sort of DIGEST

John (2009-11-17 15:08:16)

If you want to hash a large amount of data you can use the hash_init/hash_update/hash_final functions.
This allows you to hash chunks/parts/incremental or whatever you like to call it.

Serge (2008-05-20 15:19:53)

To convert an MD5 to 22 chars that contains only letters and numeric

<?php
define('HEX_CHARS',    '0123456789abcdef');
define('BASE62_CHARS', '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ');
 
/*********************************************/
function ConvertFromArbitraryBase($Str, $Chars)
/*********************************************/
{
    /*
        Converts from an arbitrary-base string to a decimal string
    */
    
    if (ereg('^[' . $Chars . ']+$', $Str))
    {
        $Result = '0';
        
        for ($i=0; $i<strlen($Str); $i++)
        {
            if ($i != 0) $Result = bcmul($Result, strlen($Chars));
            $Result = bcadd($Result, strpos($Chars, $Str[$i]));
        }
        
        return $Result;
    }
    
    return false;
}
 
/*******************************************/
function ConvertToArbitraryBase($Str, $Chars)
/*******************************************/
{
    /*
        Converts from a decimal string to an arbitrary-base string
    */
 
    if (ereg('^[0-9]+$', $Str))
    {
        $Result = '';
        
        do
        {
            $Result .= $Chars[bcmod($Str, strlen($Chars))];
            $Str = bcdiv($Str, strlen($Chars));
        }
        while (bccomp($Str, '0') != 0);
        
        return strrev($Result);
    }
    
    return false;
}
 
/**********************/
function CustomMD5($Str)
/**********************/
{
    return ConvertToArbitraryBase(ConvertFromArbitraryBase(md5($Str), HEX_CHARS), BASE62_CHARS);
}
?>

KB (2008-03-11 06:02:24)

This is probably well known, but I had a hard time finding a reference to it.
While md5 on a null string returns null, md5 on an EMPTY string does not return null or an empty string. Rather it returns "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"

admin at gadelkareem dot com (2008-01-14 20:16:00)

MySQL MD() will not give you the same hash if character set is different.
ex :
<?php
#suppose table_name CHARSET=UTF8
#$md5 = md5('St?dte'); # will give you a different hash than MySQL MD5()
#instead use
$md5 = md5(utf8_encode('St?dte')); 
$r = mysql_query("SELECT *, MD5(`word`) FROM `table_name` WHERE MD5(`word`) LIKE '{$md5}'");
if($r)
    while( $row= mysql_fetch_assoc($r) )
        print_r($row);

?>

dionyziz at deviantart dot com (2007-08-11 12:24:00)

Sometimes it's useful to get the actual, binary, md5 digest. 
You can use this function for it:

<?php

function md5bin( $target ) {
    $md5 = md5( $target );
    $ret = '';

    for ( $i = 0; $i < 32; $i += 2 ) {
        $ret .= chr( hexdec( $md5{ $i + 1 } ) + hexdec( $md5{ $i } ) * 16 );
    }

    return $ret;
}

?>

sebastian dot haller at freesurf dot ch (2007-04-07 00:06:40)

It has been found, that hash('md5', 'string'); is faster than md5($string):
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.hash.php

marzetti dot marco at NOSPAM dot gmail dot com (2006-05-16 03:12:36)

The complement of raw2hex

<?php

function hex2raw( $str ){
  $chunks = str_split($str, 2);
  for( $i = 0; $i < sizeof($chunks); $i++ ) {
        $op .= chr( hexdec( $chunks[$i] ) );
    }
    return $op;
}

?>

rick.gaither (2005-12-20 09:14:56)

This is a nifty function to help in securing your web-forms. 

If no argument is passed the function will return an encrypted hex code representing the second it was called. If the same hex code is passed to the function it will return the number of seconds that have elapsed. The php script can then check the time between accessing the web-page and submitting the POST. This thwarts script ran web-form submissions. The program can verify a suitable period has elapsed for expected manual entries. The time check can be from 1 second to about 17 hours.

The function requires the latest PEAR Blowfish Encryption module.

This would go in the form:
<?php  print "<input type='hidden' value='" . FormTimer() . "' name='FormCode'>";  ?>

This would go in the main php (post) script:
<?php
$seconds = FormTimer($_POST['FormCode']);
if (($seconds < 10) || ($seconds > 1900)) { die "Your entry time took less than 10 seconds or more than 30 minutes"; }
?>

Function...
<?php
function FormTimer($CodeID="") {

    require ('Blowfish.php');
    require ('Blowfish/DefaultKey.php');

    $key = "Secret^Word";
    $bf = new Crypt_Blowfish($key); 
     $current = substr(sprintf("%d", (time()+1)),-8);

    if (!$CodeID) { return bin2hex($bf->encrypt($current)); } 

    $len = strlen($CodeID); $cValue = -1; 
    for ($i=0;$i<$len;$i+=2) $Crypt.=chr(hexdec(substr($CodeID,$i,2)));

    if ($Crypt) {
        $time_called = $bf->decrypt($Crypt); 
        if ($time_called) { $cValue = (intval($current) - intval($time_called)); }
    }
    return $cValue;
}
?>

terry _at_ scribendi_com (2005-04-28 19:39:56)

Do not use the hex strings returned by md5() as a key for MCrypt 256-bit encryption. Hex characters only represent four bits each, so when you take 32 hex characters, you are only really using a 128-bit key, not a 256-bit one.
Using an alphanumeric key generator [A-Za-z0-9] will also only provide a 192-bit key in 32 characters.
Two different MD5s concatenated in raw binary form, or mcrypt_create_iv(32,MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM) will give you a true 256-bit key string.

John S. (2004-12-03 11:42:15)

If you want to replicate CPAN Digest::MD5's function md5_base64 in PHP, use this code:

<?php

function md5_base64 ( $data )
{
    return preg_replace('/=+$/','',base64_encode(pack('H*',md5($data))));
}

?>

Shane Allen (2003-04-14 20:53:14)

From the documentation on Digest::MD5:
md5($data,...)
This function will concatenate all arguments, calculate the MD5 digest of this "message", and return it in binary form.
md5_hex($data,...)
Same as md5(), but will return the digest in hexadecimal form.
PHP's function returns the digest in hexadecimal form, so my guess is that you're using md5() instead of md5_hex(). I have verified that md5_hex() generates the same string as PHP's md5() function.
(original comment snipped in various places)
>Hexidecimal hashes generated with Perl's Digest::MD5 module WILL
>NOT equal hashes generated with php's md5() function if the input
>text contains any non-alphanumeric characters.
>
>$phphash = md5('pa$$');
>echo "php original hash from text: $phphash";
>echo "md5 hash from perl: " . $myrow['password'];
>
>outputs:
>
>php original hash from text: 0aed5d740d7fab4201e885019a36eace
>hash from perl: c18c9c57cb3658a50de06491a70b75cd