PHP Manual: Generate a keyed hash value using the HMAC method and the contents of a given file

Description

stringfalse hash_hmac_file(
    string $algo,
    string $filename,
    #[\SensitiveParameter]string $key,
    bool $binary = false
)

Parameters

algo

Name of selected hashing algorithm (e.g. "sha256"). For a list of supported algorithms see hash_hmac_algos.

Note:
Non-cryptographic hash functions are not allowed.

filename

URL describing location of file to be hashed; Supports fopen wrappers.

key

Shared secret key used for generating the HMAC variant of the message digest.

binary

When set to true, outputs raw binary data. false outputs lowercase hexits.

Return Values

Returns a string containing the calculated message digest as lowercase hexits unless binary is set to true in which case the raw binary representation of the message digest is returned. Returns false if the file filename cannot be read.

Errors/Exceptions

Throws a ValueError exception if algo is unknown or is a non-cryptographic hash function.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	Now throws a ValueError exception if `algo` is unknown or is a non-cryptographic hash function; previously, `false` was returned instead.
7.2.0	Usage of non-cryptographic hash functions (adler32, crc32, crc32b, fnv132, fnv1a32, fnv164, fnv1a64, joaat) was disabled.

Examples

Example #1 hash_hmac_file example

<?php
/* Create a file to calculate hash of */
file_put_contents('example.txt', 'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.');

echo hash_hmac_file('sha256', 'example.txt', 'secret');
?>

The above example will output:

9c5c42422b03f0ee32949920649445e417b2c634050833c5165704b825c2a53b

hash_hmac_file