How to encrypt/decrypt data in php?

Question

I\'m currently a student and I\'m studying PHP, I\'m trying to make a simple encrypt/decrypt of data in PHP. I made some online research and some of them were quite confusin

Answer 1

Here is an example using openssl_encrypt

//Encryption:
$textToEncrypt = "My Text to Encrypt";
$encryptionMethod = "AES-256-CBC";
$secretHash = "encryptionhash";
$iv = mcrypt_create_iv(16, MCRYPT_RAND);
$encryptedText = openssl_encrypt($textToEncrypt,$encryptionMethod,$secretHash, 0, $iv);

//Decryption:
$decryptedText = openssl_decrypt($encryptedText, $encryptionMethod, $secretHash, 0, $iv);
print "My Decrypted Text: ". $decryptedText;