@AndrewMKP - your lack of knowledge and common sense should prevent you from commenting further within this thread,
If you get hacked, your cc encryption hash is also hacked as it is stored within configuration.php
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The importance of storing credit cards "offline" is EXTREME/VERY HIGH as your business will suffer greatly if you lose all your credit card numbers,
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Please refrain from posting your opinion in this post as the thread was not intended to obtain your lack of common sense and business sense opinions,.
The post is to obtain a method to extract the credit card numbers in BULK for OFFLINE STORAGE!!!
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The "whmcs encryption method" used for encrypting the cc hashes is not PUBLIC and a BULK export method for cc number plain text exporting is essential (note: the bulk export can still ask for the cc encryption hash as if it was decrypting a single cc number),,
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We are currently manually adding the cc numbers and client data to a OFFLINE storage method and when customers update their cc numbers within whmcs, we still have to manually update our offline database,
I am hoping the whmcs creators will add this feature or advise if there is a function in php we can use (with the cc encryption hash) to bulk export the cc numbers
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Also,
is the cc encryption hash thats stored in the mysql database binary data???
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Has any\one tried to export the mysql db with cc encryption hashes and re-import? Is there any issues with that?