Generate a hash value using the contents of a given file with hash_file() in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to generate a hash value using the contents of a given file with hash_file().

Example

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

echo hash_file('md5', 'example.txt');
?>

The code above generates the following result.