Re: IPv6 validation
| From: | Kevin Waterson | Date: | Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:04:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: IPv6 validation | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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This one time, at band camp, Yeti <yeti@myhich.com> wrote:
> Now i was wondering of what there might be the best way to validate an IPv6
> address.
from this url..
http://phpro.org/tutorials/Filtering-Data-with-PHP.html#9
<?php
/*** an IP address ***/
$ip = "2001:0db8:85a3:08d3:1319:8a2e:0370:7334";
/*** try to validate as IPV6 address ***/
if(filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP, FILTER_FLAG_IPV6) === FALSE)
{
echo "$ip is not a valid IP";
}
else
{
echo "$ip is valid";
}
?>