How do I calculate the MD5 hash of a string?

If that question makes no sense to you at all, then you probably don't have a need for this right now!

However lots of people do, and the good news is that it's really easy with the built-in PHP function, so here goes with the answer:


<?php

$text = "Give me some space";



$md5 = md5($text);



?>

That's all there is to it. And for those of you still wondering what this is all about, essentially it's a secure hashing function. The interesting thing is that no matter how long the data stream it converts it into a digest of a fixed size.

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