secret_key; $secret_iv = $this->secret_iv; // hash $key = hash('sha256', $secret_key); // iv - encrypt method AES-256-CBC expects 16 bytes - else you will get a warning $iv = substr(hash('sha256', $secret_iv), 0, 16); if ( $action == 'encrypt' ) { $output = openssl_encrypt($string, $encrypt_method, $key, 0, $iv); $output = base64_encode($output); } else if( $action == 'decrypt' ) { $output = openssl_decrypt(base64_decode($string), $encrypt_method, $key, 0, $iv); } return $output; } }