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gethostbyname

Description

The gethostbyname of Network for PHP gets the IPv4 address corresponding to a given Internet host name.

Syntax

gethostbyname(
    string $hostname
): string

Parameters

hostname

The host name.

Return

Returns the IPv4 address or a string containing the unmodified hostname on failure.

Examples

1 · hostname

<?

$hostname = "php.net";

$return = gethostbyname($hostname);

echo $return;

185.85.0.29