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inet_pton()

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

inet_pton() — 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.

Inputs: ip: A human readable IPv4 or IPv6 address.

Returns: 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).

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