Description
int 
ip2long ( string ip_address )
     The function ip2long() generates an IPv4 Internet
     network address from its Internet standard format (dotted string)
     representation.  If ip_address is invalid then
     -1 is returned.  Note that -1
     does not evaluate as FALSE in PHP.
    
注: 
      As of PHP 5.0.0 ip2long() returns FALSE when
      ip_address is invalid.
     
| 例子 1. ip2long() Example | 
<?php$ip = gethostbyname('www.example.com');
 $out = "The following URLs are equivalent:<br />\n";
 $out .= 'http://www.example.com/, http://' . $ip . '/, and http://' . sprintf("%u", ip2long($ip)) . "/<br />\n";
 echo $out;
 ?>
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注: 
       Because PHP's integer type is signed, and many IP addresses will
       result in negative integers, you need to use the "%u" formatter of
       sprintf() or printf() to get
       the string representation of the unsigned IP address.
      
     This second example shows how to print a converted address with the
     printf() function in both PHP 4 and PHP 5:
    
| 例子 2. Displaying an IP address | 
<?php$ip   = gethostbyname('www.example.com');
 $long = ip2long($ip);
 
 if ($long == -1 || $long === FALSE) {
 echo 'Invalid IP, please try again';
 } else {
 echo $ip   . "\n";           // 192.0.34.166
 echo $long . "\n";           // -1073732954
 printf("%u\n", ip2long($ip)); // 3221234342
 }
 ?>
 | 
 | 
     ip2long() should not be used as the sole form
     of IP validation. Combine it with long2ip():
    
| 例子 3. IP validation | 
<?php// make sure IPs are valid. also converts a non-complete IP into
 // a proper dotted quad as explained below.
 $ip = long2ip(ip2long("127.0.0.1")); // "127.0.0.1"
 $ip = long2ip(ip2long("10.0.0")); // "10.0.0.0"
 $ip = long2ip(ip2long("10.0.256")); // "10.0.1.0"
 ?>
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     ip2long() will also work with non-complete IP
     addresses. Read http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/libs/commtrf2/inet_addr.htm
     for more info.
    
注: 
      ip2long() will return FALSE for the IP
      255.255.255.255 in PHP 5 <= 5.0.2. It was fixed in
      PHP 5.0.3 where it returns -1 (same as PHP 4).
     
     See also long2ip() and
     sprintf().