inet_pton
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
inet_pton — Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation
Description
string inet_pton
( string
$address
)This function converts a human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address (if PHP was built with IPv6 support enabled) into an address family appropriate 32bit or 128bit binary structure.
Parameters
-
address -
A human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Return Values
Returns the in_addr representation of the given
address, or FALSE if a syntactically invalid
address is given (for example, an IPv4 address
without dots or an IPv6 address without colons).
Examples
Example #1 inet_pton() Example
<?php
$in_addr = inet_pton('127.0.0.1');
$in6_addr = inet_pton('::1');
?>
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.3.0 | This function is now available on Windows platforms. |
See Also
- ip2long() - Converts a string containing an (IPv4) Internet Protocol dotted address into a proper address
- long2ip() - Converts an (IPv4) Internet network address into a string in Internet standard dotted format
- inet_ntop() - Converts a packed internet address to a human readable representation
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