bug? php4 with libmcrypt-2.2.7

i have been battling libmcrypt for the past 2 days and came with zilch so far... i am about to raise the white flag and submit it to the bug list unless someone here could convince me otherwise... there is very little support/documentation on how php talks to libmcrypt. after going through the source code, i noticed that the functions listed on the web page http://www.php.net/manual/ref.mcrypt.php are not all implemented... the following are the only functions supported: PHP_FE(mcrypt_ecb, NULL) PHP_FE(mcrypt_cbc, NULL) PHP_FE(mcrypt_cfb, NULL) PHP_FE(mcrypt_ofb, NULL) PHP_FE(mcrypt_get_cipher_name, NULL) PHP_FE(mcrypt_get_block_size, NULL) PHP_FE(mcrypt_get_key_size, NULL) PHP_FE(mcrypt_create_iv, NULL) even then, mcrypt_ecb, cbc, cfb, ofb are not working correctly. instead of returning srings, they return binary garbage. this is a huge problem because the decrypt function takes a string as input. because of this, i cannot go through the encrypt/decrypt process and get back the original message that i wanted encrypted. if anyone has had experience with libmcrypt with the same configuration as mine, please lemme know. otherwise i'll be submitting this to the bug report sometime soon... thanx in advance for any help/suggestion/comment! :) ---------------- remco chang bountyquest.com