PHP Manual: Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in

Description

stringfalse inet_pton(string $ip)

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

ip: A human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address.

Return Values

Returns the in_addr representation of the given ip, or false if a syntactically invalid ip 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');
?>

inet_pton

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