inet_pton

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7)

Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation

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.

Returns:

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).

Changelog:

5.3.0

This function is now available on Windows platforms.

Examples:

inet_pton() Example

<?php
$in_addr = inet_pton('127.0.0.1');
 
$in6_addr = inet_pton('::1');
?>