Sometimes a hosting provider doesn't provide access to the Hash extension. Here is a clone of the hash_hmac function you can use in the event you need an HMAC generator and Hash is not available. It's only usable with MD5 and SHA1 encryption algorithms, but its output is identical to the official hash_hmac function (so far at least).
<?php
function custom_hmac($algo, $data, $key, $raw_output = false)
{
$algo = strtolower($algo);
$pack = 'H'.strlen($algo('test'));
$size = 64;
$opad = str_repeat(chr(0x5C), $size);
$ipad = str_repeat(chr(0x36), $size);
if (strlen($key) > $size) {
$key = str_pad(pack($pack, $algo($key)), $size, chr(0x00));
} else {
$key = str_pad($key, $size, chr(0x00));
}
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($key) - 1; $i++) {
$opad[$i] = $opad[$i] ^ $key[$i];
$ipad[$i] = $ipad[$i] ^ $key[$i];
}
$output = $algo($opad.pack($pack, $algo($ipad.$data)));
return ($raw_output) ? pack($pack, $output) : $output;
}
?>
Example Use:
<?php
custom_hmac('sha1', 'Hello, world!', 'secret', true);
?>
