Re: md5() number of aruments

What page is that on? BTW, I figured out I could just prepend a long, complex string to whatever I am hashing and it will 'seed' it before it gets to my stuff. Jason k Larson wrote:

mhash (PHP 3>= 3.0.9, PHP 4 ) mhash -- Compute hash Description: string mhash ( int hash, string data [, string key])

                                               ^ salt/seed/key - whatever you want to call it

-- Jason k Larson Dennis Gearon wrote:

I don't see anywhere on that page where it shows using a seed. It shows **selecting a hash algorithm**, but no salt. Maybe that's the second argument that you're looking at. Jason k Larson wrote:

First of all, the example you gave is only using one argument to the MD5 function. Secondly, if you *want* to seed/salt the MD5 with a key you can use: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mhash.php -- Jason k Larson aka: der Ritter Dennis Gearon wrote:

The usage of md5() in PHPLIB show TWO arguments, a seed and the string. Nothing in the online manual shows 2 args. What's the dealio? Line 111 from PHPLIB7.2c - session.inc: $id = $this->that->ac_newid(md5(uniqid($this->magic)), $this->name);