library inet

foolz/inet

A PHP implementation of decimal IPs. Converts IPs from presentation to decimal and viceversa. Very useful to store IPs in database as numbers instead of string, in example in a decimal(39,0) column.

Foolz\Inet

This Composer package provides two functions that allow converting between IP Address and IP Decimal. It works for both IPv4 and IPv6., _(*1)

Based on the answer to "How to convert IPv6 from binary for storage in MySQL?" on StackOverflow by Sander Marechal. Content posted on StackOverflow is under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License., _(*2)

Requirements

• BCMath
• PHP 5.3+

Usage

$decimal_ip = \Foolz\Inet\Inet::ptod($ip);
$ip = \Foolz\Inet\Inet::dtop($decimal_ip);

Storage on MySQL Databases

You should use a DECIMAL(39,0) column to store the entire IP Decimal., _(*3)