<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mcrypt_get_cipher_name</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Encryption functions" HREF="ref.mcrypt.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Encryption functions" HREF="ref.mcrypt.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mcrypt_get_block_size" HREF="function.mcrypt-get-block-size.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.mcrypt.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-block-size.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mcrypt-get-cipher-name" >mcrypt_get_cipher_name</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN7885" ></A >mcrypt_get_cipher_name -- Get the name of the specified cipher</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN7888" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >string mcrypt_get_cipher_name</CODE >(int cipher);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mcrypt_get_cipher_name()</B > is used to get the name of the specified cipher.</P ><P > <B CLASS="function" >mcrypt_get_cipher_name()</B > takes the cipher number as an argument and returns the name of the cipher or false, if the cipher does not exist.</P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><P ><B >Example 1. mcrypt_get_cipher_name example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 <?php 3 $cipher = MCRYPT_TripleDES; 4 5 print mcrypt_get_cipher_name($cipher); 6 ?> 7 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ><P > The above example will produce: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 TripleDES 3 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mcrypt.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-block-size.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Encryption functions</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mcrypt.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mcrypt_get_block_size</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >