Strongest hash function available to standard PHP?

[DWilliams]

Specifically for hashing a password to be stored in a database. I know SHA1 and MD5 are essentially considered broken. I've been using MD5 with a salt value on all my projects but I'm starting a new project and wondering if there's a stronger algorithm I should be using?

[love_bug]

If you are storing treasure, wealth, gold information with your project you should worry, but for average website like phpfreaks md5 is more than enough i guess.

[AbraCadaver]

Specifically for hashing a password to be stored in a database. I know SHA1 and MD5 are essentially considered broken. I've been using MD5 with a salt value on all my projects but I'm starting a new project and wondering if there's a stronger algorithm I should be using?

 

I use MD5, but it depends upon what is available to your system.  Use print_r(hash_algos()) to see what's available. to use with the hash() or hash_hmac() functions.

[thebadbad]

Algorithms in the SHA-2 family are recommended by NIST. Remember that your salt should be a random string with at least as many variable bits, as there are bits in the hash result. Then you're good to go!