[php] Simplest two-way encryption using PHP

Use mcrypt_encrypt() and mcrypt_decrypt() with corresponding parameters. Really easy and straight forward, and you use a battle-tested encryption package.

EDIT

5 years and 4 months after this answer, the mcrypt extension is now in the process of deprecation and eventual removal from PHP.

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