inet_pton

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7)

inet_pton — Converts a human readable IP address to its packed in_addr representation

설명

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.

인수

address: A human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address.

반환값

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).

예제

Example #1 inet_pton() Example


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

변경점

버전	설명
5.3.0	This function is now available on Windows platforms.

참고

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

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User Contributed Notes 8 notes

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TuRn3r ¶

10 years ago


Be careful, address with leading 0 return false.

Example : 
<?php
inet_pton('172.27.1.04'); // return false
inet_pton('172.27.1.4') ;// return the good result
?>

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me at diogoresende dot net ¶

18 years ago


If you want to use the above function you should test for ':' character before '.'. Meaning, you should check if it's an ipv6 address before checking for ipv4.
Why? IPv6 allows this type of notation:

::127.0.0.1

If you check for '.' character you will think this is an ipv4 address and it will fail.

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strata_ranger at hotmail dot com ¶

15 years ago


If the input string is not a readable IP address, inet_pton() generates an E_WARNING and returns FALSE.  The same is true for inet_ntop().

Also, inet_pton() does not recognize netmask notation (e.g: "1.2.3.4/24" or "1:2::3:4/64") in the input string.  This differs from how some database systems (like postgreSQL) support IP address types, so if you need that sort of functionality when processing IP addresses in PHP you'll have to write it in yourself.

A rough example:

<?php

// Sample IP addresses
$ipaddr = '1.2.3.4/24'; // IPv4 with /24 netmask
$ipaddr = '1:2::3:4/64'; // IPv6 with /64 netmask

// Strip out the netmask, if there is one.
$cx = strpos($ipaddr, '/');
if ($cx)
{
  $subnet = (int)(substr($ipaddr, $cx+1));
  $ipaddr = substr($ipaddr, 0, $cx);
}
else $subnet = null; // No netmask present

// Convert address to packed format
$addr = inet_pton($ipaddr);

// Let's display it as hexadecimal format
foreach(str_split($addr) as $char) echo str_pad(dechex(ord($char)), 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);
echo "<br />\n";

// Convert the netmask
if (is_integer($subnet))
{
  // Maximum netmask length = same as packed address
  $len = 8*strlen($addr);
  if ($subnet > $len) $subnet = $len;
  
  // Create a hex expression of the subnet mask
  $mask  = str_repeat('f', $subnet>>2);
  switch($subnet & 3)
  {
  case 3: $mask .= 'e'; break;
  case 2: $mask .= 'c'; break;
  case 1: $mask .= '8'; break;
  }
  $mask = str_pad($mask, $len>>2, '0');

  // Packed representation of netmask
  $mask = pack('H*', $mask);
}

// Display the netmask as hexadecimal
foreach(str_split($mask) as $char) echo str_pad(dechex(ord($char)), 2, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT);

?>

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francis dot besset at gmail dot com ¶

13 years ago


It is possible to verify if PHP was compiled with --disable-ipv6 option by AF_INET6 constant.

<?php

if (defined('AF_INET6')) {
  echo "PHP was compiled without --disable-ipv6 option";
} else {
  echo "PHP was compiled with --disable-ipv6 option";
}

?>

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dave at php dot net ¶

9 years ago


If you are receiving an "Unrecognized address" error for an IPv6 address, it's possible your version of PHP has not been compiled with IPv6 support.

To check, load up phpinfo(); and look to see if "IPv6 Support" is set to "disabled".

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admin at hanzlsoft dot eu ¶

3 years ago


Regarding the ::127.0.0.1 notation

It is a very special case that needs not to be handled. This kind of notation is reserved for ipv4-compatible ipv6 address. 
For example the notation ::ffff:192.0.2.128 can be easily read as "ipv6 address that maps to ipv4 address 192.0.2.128"

However as RFC says:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5156#page-2

2.2.  IPv4-Mapped Addresses

   ::FFFF:0:0/96 are the IPv4-mapped addresses [RFC4291].  Addresses
   within this block should not appear on the public Internet.

2.3.  IPv4-Compatible Addresses

   ::<ipv4-address>/96 are the IPv4-compatible addresses [RFC4291].
   These addresses are deprecated and should not appear on the public
   Internet.

This means that you only need to handle this kind of notation if you need to be compatible with private IP's

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tobias ¶

8 years ago


Oh my god:

0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0127:2258
becomes '"X.

Do not forget to escape it

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eric at vyncke org ¶

17 years ago


Not so easy in the function below... It is not handling the case of '::' which can happen in an IPv6 and represents any number of 0, addresses could be as simple as ff05::1

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