<?php
    $keyT = "keyString";
    $key = md5($key);
    $key_size =  strlen($key);
    $plaintext = "Text_Block";

    $iv_size = mcrypt_get_iv_size(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC);
    $iv = mcrypt_create_iv($iv_size, MCRYPT_RAND);

    $ciphertext = mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128, $key,
                             $plaintext, MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, $iv);

    # prepend the IV
    $ciphertext = $iv . $ciphertext;

    # encode using base64
    $ciphertext_base64 = base64_encode($ciphertext);

    $data = $ciphertext_base64;
?>

-(void) connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *) connection {
          NSLog(@"Succesfully downloaded data! received %d bytes.", [downloadData length]);
          NSString *dataText = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:downloadData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
          NSData *decodedData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBase64EncodedString:dataText options:0];
          // Now lets say I have the key created in the php file:
          char void *key = @"key goes here";
          // This is where it stops for me, how do I extract the IV (which should be the first 16 characters) and how do I use this to decrypt the data?
    }