ID: 47214 User updated by: tiamo at tfr dot org Reported By: tiamo at tfr dot org Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: All PHP Version: 5.2.8 New Comment:
Also functions to extract the IPv4 part in from 2002::/16 addresses. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-01-25 17:47:25] tiamo at tfr dot org Description: ------------ PHP really needs functions for handling of IPv6 addresses, Like inet6_aton inet6_ntoa, functions to expand and collapse addresses (::1, 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001, 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1), to convert to and from v6 mapped IPv4 addresses (::FFFF:1.2.3.4). This is needed to be able make sites future safe, to be able to store and process things like logs, access-lists, database-storage the same way for both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47214&edit=1
