[RESOLVED] Perl->PHP: md5_base64?

[Anon]

Perl has a function in the Crypt:😃ES package called md5_base64. It returns 22 chars. I would assume this could be accomplished by base64_encode(md5("passphrase")), or md5(base64_encode("passphrase")), but both return 32 chars. Anyone know how this can be natively completed in PHP?

Reason being: we use an LDAP server to authenticate our qmail users. The perl script we use to add users (and effectively generate pw's) uses this md5_base64 function on the password, and then dumps it to the LDAP. Now I wanna do that in PHP 🙂

[dcomartin]

From what I have used, md5 in PHP always returns 32 chars. I have never heard of it returning 22. I think you are on the right track with base64_encode. But i know if you use the md5() function no matter what you are going to return 32.

Derek

[weasel5i2]

How about this:

function md5_base64( $data )
{
	return base64_encode( pack( 'H*', md5( $data ) ) );
}

--Weasel5i2