MD5 Generation

[pcottrell]

Greetings.. I have been searching the net for an FMP plugin which might generate MD5 hash strings.. Does anyone know of such a plugin, or does anyone have a calculation or custom function that might do the job?

Thanks in advance...

Philip

[Doug Moskowitz]

If this is really important to you, there is a way to do it as follows:

1) I use (heavily) a plug-in call MV-Anything. It can be found at http://www.mallverkstan.com/filemaker/mvanything.htm. This plug-in allows you to call a script, such as VBScript or Javascript, and return a value to FileMaker. For those who understanding scripting, this completely opens FileMaker to a new and practically unlimited world. A trial version is available and it contains instructive examples. Warning! When I purchased this product last year, it took a few days for the developer to send me the license key. I have tested this with FMP6 and FMP7...works both ways.

2) You will need to write the script in either VBScript or Javascript for the MD5 hash. If you do not have the algorithm, try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5. If I had it written, I would give it to you, but it is not one I have worked on.

Good luck!