How to decrypt a string in php a string encrypted in nodejs - php

Question

Goodmorning,
I am trying to implement some new things on a legacy system.
To manage the authentication I need to pass an encrypted string that comes from a nodejs source to a php page and decrypt it and verify it.
The following code is what I have tried to do, the main problem is that I cannot change the nodejs code, even if it is deprecated, so I have to try to implement the correct way to decrypt it in php, the password is the same, the algorithm is aes-256-ctr and there is no padding and initialization vector.
NODE.JS CODE
function encrypt(text) {
var cipher = crypto.createCipher(algorithm, password())
cipher.setAutoPadding(false);
var crypted = cipher.update(text, 'utf8', 'hex')
crypted += cipher.final('hex')
return crypted
}
function decrypt(text) {
var decipher = crypto.createDecipher(algorithm, password())
decipher.setAutoPadding(false);
var dec = decipher.update(text, 'hex', 'utf8')
dec += decipher.final('utf8')
return dec
}
PHP CODE
function decrypt($text)
{
return openssl_decrypt(hex2bin($text), _algorithm_, password(), OPENSSL_NO_PADDING);
}
Somehow these two decrypt works in a different way, what can I do to make the php one behave as the nodejs decrypt?
EDIT: as suggested by #Chris Haas I checked if the conversion by and from hex or utf-8 are the same, and I can confirm that they are the same
var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer
const buf = Buffer.from('hello world', 'utf8');
console.log(buf.toString('hex'));
echo bin2hex("hello world");