inet_pton
PHP function
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(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation
Description
inet_pton(string $ip): string|false
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
ipA human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Return Values
Returns the in_addr representation of the given ip, or false if a syntactically invalid ip is given (for example, an IPv4 address without dots or an IPv6 address without colons).
Examples
inet_pton() Example
php
<?php
$in_addr = inet_pton('127.0.0.1');
$in6_addr = inet_pton('::1');
?>