mhash equivalent

Hi I want to check a string using the function mhash:

mhash(MHASH_SHA256, $string)

However my server does not have the mhash function installed.

What is the alternative for mhash?

Can I use this:

hash("sha256", $string, "true")

 

They don't output the same values
You will need to get some kind of a hex2bin function (which doesnt exist in php itself but you can find them). For example

// hex2bin function by chaos79 taken from http://php.net/manual/en/function.bin2hex.php
function hex2bin($h) {
	if (!is_string($h)) return null;
	$r = '';
	for ($a = 0; $a < strlen($h); $a += 2) {
		$r .= chr(hexdec($h{$a}.$h{($a + 1)}));
	}
	return $r;
}

$string = 'example';
echo hex2bin(hash('sha256', $string));

PHP:

This would output the exact same as

echo mhash(MHASH_SHA256, $string);

PHP:

 

I see thanks.