Class to get the strongest hashing algorigthm available on any system to salt and hash passwords. Hasheesh =]

hasheesh.php

<?php

class Hasheesh
{
    public static $algo = False;

    public static function init()
    {
        $algos = array();
        foreach ( hash_algos() as $algo ) {
            if ( 0 === strpos($algo, 'sha') ) {
                $algos[] = $algo;
            }
        }
        self::$algo = end($algos); // sha512 ?
    }

    public static function generate_salt($length=56)
    {
        $salt = base64_encode(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($length));
        $actual_length = strlen($salt);
        $range = $actual_length - $length;
        return substr($salt, mt_rand(0,$range), $length);
    }

    public static function create_hash($pw, $pw_salt)
    {
        if ( !self::$algo ) {
            self::init();
        }
        return hash_hmac(self::$algo, $pw, $pw_salt);
    }
}

This has no checks if you have openssl installed on your server, so clearly, use at your own risk =]