they give difference results though?

IE:

Text1 in php gives: 8fd6355c54556be287fecb4166c4a8c1
Text1 in VB gives: 8d993394c892dcaa8683dc4ba4fae21d

[i have searched the forums for ages, even asked a thread b4 about md5, but their diff, etc.]

Is there any way i can get any encryption to give the same result? or will i need to result to having a normal text password in my DB?

[Not that much of a problem, except that it exposes ppl's passwords if ma site gets hacked some way etc..]

How bout a base64_encode? [not "Perfect" but its still some "Protection"?]

is there a way to do this in php/vb that gives the same result?
[This is just a type of "Encoding/Encryption" for php. its used alot for my cookies etc, so it isnt normal text in cookies that ne 1 can read...]

thanks....