Translating PHP mcrypt to exec

[laredotornado]

Hello, My hosting company does not support the PHP mcrypt functions.
Instead, they recomend using the command line, /usr/local/bin/mcrypt
utility via PHP's exec method. Sadly, they do not provide any
documentation how to do this. How would i translate the following

function encryptString($p_str)
{
$iv_size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_XTEA,
MCRYPT_MODE_ECB);
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv($iv_size, MCRYPT_RAND);

$enc = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_XTEA,
ENCRYPTION_KEY, $p_str, MCRYPT_MODE_ECB, $iv);
return $enc;
} // encryptstring
to run via an exec command, returning the encrypted output to some PHP
variable?

I'm using PHP 4 on Linux if that's useful. Thanks, - Dave

[Default User]

la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hello, My hosting company does not support the PHP mcrypt functions.
Instead, they recomend using the command line, /usr/local/bin/mcrypt
utility via PHP's exec method. Sadly, they do not provide any
documentation how to do this.

You can usually find the man pages for UNIX stuff by via Google by
searching for the name and the word "man".
This may help you:

http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/cgi-bi...rypt&section=1

Brian