# Digest::base - phpMan

## NAME
    [Digest::base] - Digest base class

## SYNOPSIS
      package [Digest::Foo];
      use base '[Digest::base]';

## DESCRIPTION
    The "[Digest::base]" class provide implementations of the methods
    "addfile" and "add_bits" in terms of "add", and of the methods
    "hexdigest" and "b64digest" in terms of "digest".

    Digest implementations might want to inherit from this class to get this
    implementations of the alternative *add* and *digest* methods. A minimal
    subclass needs to implement the following methods by itself:

        new
        clone
        add
        digest

    The arguments and expected behaviour of these methods are described in
    Digest.

## SEE ALSO
    Digest