Java md5, the PHP way

Question

I have been working on this for hours, but I can\'t get it to work.

Basically I am developing a REST client in Java for a REST server in PHP. Both the client and the

Answer 1

Found myself:

import java.math.BigInteger;
..
public static String md5(String input) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
        String result = input;
        if(input != null) {
            MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"); //or "SHA-1"
            md.update(input.getBytes());
            BigInteger hash = new BigInteger(1, md.digest());
            result = hash.toString(16);
            if ((result.length() % 2) != 0) {
                result = "0" + result;
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

Source: http://www.sergiy.ca/how-to-make-java-md5-and-sha-1-hashes-compatible-with-php-or-mysql/