[nycphp-talk] Quick question about mcrypt return values
Chris Snyder
chsnyder at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 11:47:58 EDT 2011
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> So I've never used MCRYPT before today and I've got a question. How
> can I tell if it's worked or failed? The doc says MCRYPT_DECRYPT() and
> MCRYPT_ENCRYPT() will return decrypted or encrypted data respectively
> but how do I know if it's completely failed?
>
> Thanks!
> Anthony
>
If it failed you get binary gibberish, or nothing, and you get to
troubleshoot till you figure out the problem.
It's not very dev friendly, but it works.
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