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<h1 class="refname">hash_copy</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">hash_copy</span> — <span class="dc-title">Copy hashing context</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">resource</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>hash_copy</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">resource</span> <code class="parameter">$context</code></span>
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">context</code></em></span>
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Hashing context returned by <span class="function"><a href="function.hash-init.html" class="function">hash_init()</a></span>.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns a copy of Hashing Context resource.
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>hash_copy()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$context </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">hash_init</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"md5"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">hash_update</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$context</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"data"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">/* copy context to be able to continue using it */<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$copy_context </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">hash_copy</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$context</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">hash_final</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$context</span><span style="color: #007700">), </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">hash_update</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$copy_context</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"data"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">hash_final</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$copy_context</span><span style="color: #007700">), </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
8d777f385d3dfec8815d20f7496026dc
511ae0b1c13f95e5f08f1a0dd3da3d93
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