inet_pton

(no version information, might be only in CVS)

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.

Example 1. inet_pton() Example

<?php
$in_addr
= inet_pton('127.0.0.1');

$in6_addr = inet_pton('::1');

?>

See also ip2long(), inet_ntop(), and long2ip().