<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >mcrypt_get_cipher_name</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Mcrypt Encryption Functions" HREF="ref.mcrypt.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mcrypt_get_block_size" HREF="function.mcrypt-get-block-size.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="mcrypt_get_iv_size" HREF="function.mcrypt-get-iv-size.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation 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="function.mcrypt-get-block-size.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-iv-size.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.mcrypt-get-cipher-name" ></A >mcrypt_get_cipher_name</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN49259" ></A ><P > (PHP 3>= 3.0.8, PHP 4 )</P >mcrypt_get_cipher_name -- Get the name of the specified cipher</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN49262" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >mcrypt_get_cipher_name</B > ( int cipher)<BR ></BR >string <B CLASS="methodname" >mcrypt_get_cipher_name</B > ( string cipher)<BR ></BR ><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 (libmcrypt 2.2.x) or takes the cipher name as an argument (libmcrypt 2.4.x or higher) and returns the name of the cipher or <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >, if the cipher does not exist. </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN49282" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. <B CLASS="function" >mcrypt_get_cipher_name()</B > Example</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="php" ><?php $cipher = MCRYPT_TripleDES; echo mcrypt_get_cipher_name ($cipher); ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > The above example will produce: <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >3DES</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-block-size.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mcrypt-get-iv-size.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mcrypt_get_block_size</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.mcrypt.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >mcrypt_get_iv_size</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >