MD5 hashing does not match in C# and PHP

Question

I have tried hashing a string in PHP using MD5 and the same in C#, but the results are different.. can someone explain me how to get this matched?

my C# code looks l

Answer 1

The solution from Juliet didn't give me the same result as a PHP hash I was comparing against (produced by Magento 1.x), however the following did, based on this implementation on github:

                using (var md5 = MD5.Create())
                {
                    result = BitConverter.ToString(md5.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input)))
                        .Replace("-", string.Empty).ToLower();
                }