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 than
     -1 is returned.  Note that -1
     does not evaluate as FALSE in PHP.
     
| 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 :
     
| 例子 2. Displaying an IP address | 
<?php$ip   = gethostbyname("www.example.com");
 $long = ip2long($ip);
 
 if ($long === -1) {
 echo "Invalid IP, please try again";
 } else {
 echo $ip   . "\n";           // 192.0.34.166
 echo $long . "\n";           // -1073732954
 printf("%u\n", ip2long($ip)); // 3221234342
 }
 ?>
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    注: 
      ip2long() will return -1 for
      the ip 255.255.255.255
     
     See also long2ip() and
     sprintf().