[RESOLVED] small function problem

[DeathfireD]

I must be losing it. I've been staring at this function for the past hour trying to figure out why it's returning true every time, even when the output shows that it's a real ip.

Here's the php code that calls the function.

[resolved]

[NogDog]

I did not give the code a close inspection, but an idea occurs to me: you could just use the [man]ip2long/man function to validate it:

if(ip2long($ip_address) === false) { // it's invalid }

Or if using PHP 5.2.0+ :

if(filter_var($ip_address, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) === false) { // it's invalid }

[DeathfireD]

NogDog;10890040 wrote:

I did not give the code a close inspection, but an idea occurs to me: you could just use the [man]ip2long/man function to validate it:

if(ip2long($ip_address) === false) { // it's invalid }

Or if using PHP 5.2.0+ :

if(filter_var($ip_address, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) === false) { // it's invalid }

.< wow that was far simpler then what I was doing XD. Thanks a lot NogDog, it seems to work great now....lets hope it stays like that.