MySQL Hashing Function Implementation

Question

I know that php has md5(), sha1(), and the hash() functions, but I want to create a hash using the MySQL PASSWORD() function. So far, the only way I can think of is to just

Answer 1

Yes, too late but I just came up this implementation on that page: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/password-hashing.html

Here is the equivalent php function to mysql password;

function mysql_41_password($in) {
    $p = sha1($in, true);
    $p = sha1($p);
    return '*'. strtoupper($p);
}