inet_pton
PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8
inet_pton - Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation
Manual
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
- ip
-
A 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).