note 74144 deleted from function.md5 by tularis

Note Submitter: jlinkels at linkels dot net ---- The PHP MD5() function does not encrypt a string in the same way as the standard *nix MD5SUM function. If you want to access an encrypted string in a MySQL database from different programs in *nix, and also from PHP, use the MySQL MD5() function, as in: UPDATE users SET pwd=md5('mypass') WHERE user='myuser'; This will generate the same encrypted string as in PHP md5('mypass'). I am sure it has some security issues, especially if the traffic between the other application and MySQL can be eavesdropped, but for simple encrypted storage it works fine.