PHP/Utility Function/mhash

MD5 by way of the mhash extension

 
<?
$hashB = bin2hex(mhash(MHASH_MD5, "optimize this!"));
?>

mhash.php

 
<?php
   $userpswd = "mysecretpswd";
   $pswdhash = mhash(MHASH_SHA1, $userpswd);
   echo "The hashed password is: ".bin2hex($pswdhash);
?>