Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation
Syntax
inet_pton ( string $address ) : string
Parameters
address
A human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Return
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
1
<?
$in_addr = inet_pton('127.0.0.1');
echo "packed:" . $in_addr . "\n";
$in6_addr = inet_pton('::1');
echo "packed:" . $in6_addr;
?>
packed: packed:
