Re: mhash() without mhash library?
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:18:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mhash() without mhash library? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Nick Wilson wrote:
> hi all,
>
> can anyone tell me if it might be possible to do an mhash() without
> actually having the mhash library installed? for various reasons it's
> very impracticle to have a compiled version of php running on our
> production servers and i'd really like to be able to use the alexa web
> services.
>
> here's the php snippet that wont work, just so you know what the aim
> is..
>
> function make_sig ( $secret_access_key, $service, $operation, $timestamp)
> {
> $sig = $service . $operation . $timestamp;
> $hmac = mhash ( MHASH_SHA1, $sig, $secret_access_key );
> $encoded_hmac = base64_encode ( $hmac );
> return urlencode ( $encoded_hmac );
> }
>
> any thoughts?
plenty. the first was STFM:
read this page: http://php.net/sha1 (and search for
'hmac')
no idea if the solution offered there actually works but hope it does the trick.
>