note 58388 deleted from function.ip2long by danbrown

Note Submitter: paul at santasoft point com ---- to complement daevid at daevid dot com's note (11 Nov 2004) about the catch being that PHP returns negative values.... If you define your mysql column that stores the ip address in INT format as signed (not unsigned), then it'll work just fine. No need to do any conversion using sprintf and this way you'll keep the value and be able to use PHP's long2ip() function on the value and get an accurate result. SO.. define your MySQL column as signed (leave the Attributes select box in phpMyAdmin blank) and you won't need to do any conversions or whatnot.