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');
?>

Changelog

Version	Description
5.3.0	This function is now available on Windows platforms.

See Also

• ip2long() - Converts a string containing an (IPv4) Internet Protocol dotted address into a proper address
• long2ip() - Converts an (IPv4) Internet network address into a string in Internet standard dotted format
• inet_ntop() - Converts a packed internet address to a human readable representation