inet_pton
Description
The inet_pton of Network for PHP 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:
Links
Network
- checkdnsrr
- closelog
- dns_check_record
- dns_get_mx
- dns_get_record
- fsockopen
- gethostbyaddr
- gethostbyname
- gethostbynamel
- gethostname
- getmxrr
- getprotobyname
- getprotobynumber
- getservbyname
- getservbyport
- header
- header_register_callback
- header_remove
- headers_list
- headers_sent
- http_response_code
- inet_ntop
- ip2long
- long2ip
- openlog
- pfsockopen
- setcookie
- setrawcookie
- socket_get_status
- socket_set_blocking
- socket_set_timeout
- syslog
