How can I check in PHP if 2 IPv6-Adresses are equal?

Question

I want to check if an IP is whitelisted, but IPv6-Adresses can have different representations:

For example 2001:0DB8:0:0:1::1 is the short form of 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0001:0000:0000:0001.

Thus, string comparison doesn’t work. How can I know two adresses are equal?

Answer

function is_ip_equal($ip1, $ip2) {
    return inet_pton($ip1) == inet_pton($ip2);
}

(However, this will only work if PHP was not compiled with --disable-ipv6 option. You can check this by using if (!defined('AF_INET6')) echo "IPv6 support was disabled";).

Accepted Answer

Use inet_pton.function is_ip_equal($ip1, $ip2) {    return inet_pton($ip1) == inet_pton($ip2);}(However, this will only work if PHP was not compiled with --disable-ipv6 option. You can check this by using if (!defined('AF_INET6')) echo "IPv6 support was disabled";).

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