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inet_pton

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7)

inet_ptonConverts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation


Description

inet_pton ( string $address ) : string

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');?>

See Also

  • ip2long() - Converts a string containing an (IPv4) Internet Protocol dotted address into a long integer
  • long2ip() - Converts an long integer address into a string in (IPv4) Internet standard dotted format
  • inet_ntop() - Converts a packed internet address to a human readable representation