note 14109 added to ref.mcrypt.php

Mcrypt support in PHP has gone through cycles and it seems to have finally leveled off. First, get libmcrypt-2.4.15 (well, that was the lastest as of today) and compile it. Pay no attention to the mcrypt examples in this manual as most of them will simply cause your web server to segfault. Here are some functions that I hope will help others with mcrypt. PHP Manual Editor : Can you remove all the outdated comments and examples from the manual? It was seriously confusing to get to the bottom of the problems I had starting to use mcrypt and it's fairly straight forward now, I just think the PHP manual needs some updating in this area. Note that it seems Zend's manual pages have been updated as that's where I finally got some working example code. Thanks!!! $sCryptoKey = "whatever"; function my_encrypt($sString) { GLOBAL $sCryptoKey; $iIV = mcrypt_create_iv (mcrypt_get_iv_size (MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB), MCRYPT_RAND); $sEncrypted = mcrypt_encrypt (MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $sCryptoKey, $sString, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $iIV); return($sEncrypted); } // End function my_encrypt function my_decrypt($sString) { GLOBAL $sCryptoKey; $iIV = mcrypt_create_iv (mcrypt_get_iv_size (MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB), MCRYPT_RAND); $sDecrypted = mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, $sCryptoKey, $sString, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $iIV); return(trim($sDecrypted)); } // End function my_decrypt http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mcrypt.php