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

Examples

Example#1 inet_pton() Example


<?php
 $in_addr = inet_pton('127.0.0.1');
 
 $in6_addr = inet_pton('::1');
 
 ?>

Notes

Note: This function is not implemented on Windows platforms.