WWhat is the functionality of md5 function in PHP?
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Answer / lakum
md5 means Messagedigest5 is an algorithem
converst the plain text to hipher text
mainly used in store the user passwords in database
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Answer / dn singh
With the md5 function you can encrypt your text with 32
character hexadecimal string.
For Ex.
$str = 'apple';
echo md5($str);
this prints '1f3870be274f6c49b3e31a0c6728957f'
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Answer / vivek
Calculates the MD5 hash of str using the ? RSA Data
Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, and returns
that hash. The hash is a 32-character hexadecimal number. If
the optional raw_output is set to TRUE, then the md5 digest
is instead returned in raw binary format with a length of 16.
The optional raw_output parameter was added in PHP 5.0.0 and
defaults to FALSE
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Answer / diwakar tiwari
md5 is one encryption algorithm. for using this function we
can store password in database. After using this function ,
we can not decrypt password. it convert plain text into 32-
character hexadecimal number.
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Answer / dhirendra yadav
md5-messagedigest5..it is encryption algorithm.
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Answer / hirak
calculate md5 hash of a string.
hash is 32-character hexadecimal string.
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=== represents what?
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