On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:37:22PM +0100, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote : 
> Lenar Lõhmus wrote:
> 
> >Alessandro Astarita wrote:
> >>Il 17:25, giovedì 15 novembre 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
> >>>Then this will do the same:
> >>>$sum = `md5sum filename`;
> >>>
> >>Do I have to depends on the external executable? ...in my opinion is not
> >>the right way.
> >
> >+1 to the function
> 
> hm, what about just overloading the current md5 function?
> 
> if given a string -> current behavior
> 
> if given a file handle resource -> read file and return sum

-1 on that (+1 on md5_file() )

You want your code look like

$f = fopen('filename');
$md5sum = md5($f);
fclose($f);

than

$m45sum = md5_file($f);

?

No seriously I hope ;)

- Markus

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