Change IPv4 to IPv6 string

Question

Sander Steffann mentioned in a previous question of mine:

Addresses like 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:192.168.0.1 are written as 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:c0a8:0001 which is exactly the same address but in hex notation.

How do I detect in PHP if an address was written like eg.: ::0000:192.168.0.1 or 0000::0000:192.168.0.1 or 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:192.168.0.1 etc.? Is it enough to check if an IP-based string has '.' AND ':' ?

And how do I change this to the full string 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:c0a8:0001?

Am I correct, to change this to IPv4 will be something like:

<?php 
$strIP = '0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:192.168.0.1';

$strResult = substr($strIP, strrpos($strIP, ':'));

echo $strResult; //192.168.0.1 ?
?>

... or are correct IP string representations more complex than what this snippet could do?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '13 at 19:23

I can't believe I wrote this all out in one go and it worked the first time.

$strIP = '0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:192.168.0.1';
$arrIP = explode(':', $strIP);

if( preg_match('/^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$/', $arrIP[count($arrIP)-1]) ) {
  $ip4parts = explode('.', $arrIP[count($arrIP)-1]);
  $ip6trans = sprintf("%02x%02x:%02x%02x", $ip4parts[0], $ip4parts[1], $ip4parts[2], $ip4parts[3]);
  $arrIP[count($arrIP)-1] = $ip6trans;

  $strIP = implode(':', $arrIP);
}
echo $strIP; //output: 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:c0a8:0001

Basically:

Explode the string on :
Check if the last quad is formatted like an IP4 address
Explode the last quad on .
Re-print the IP4 octets into two hex quads
Replace the IP4 quad with the new ones
Implode the array on :.

Not bad, I was basically typing the same answer with an `array_map` on `$ip4parts` with `dechex`, then joining the first and last two pairs. — nickb, Jan 21 '13 at 19:29

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 21 '13 at 19:39

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Your best bet is to not do this manually, but instead call inet_pton to get a binary representation, and then convert that to the format you wish to have.

$foo = inet_pton("::1");
for ($i = 0 ; $i < 8 ; $i++)
    $arr[$i] = sprintf("%02x%02x", ord($foo[$i * 2]), ord($foo[$i * 2 + 1]));
$addr = implode(":", $arr);

edited Jan 21 '13 at 19:39

rekire

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answered Jan 21 '13 at 19:37

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You should note that this just work only if PHP was built with IPv6 support. – rekire Jan 21 '13 at 19:38
`invalid string offset: 4` – Jul 16 '18 at 14:56
@argon this code is only for IPv6 addresses, you'll get that error if you feed it an IPv4 address. – Per Johansson Jul 17 '18 at 09:41
@PerJohansson - indeed, just a comment for the copy+paste peeps .. (hashtag drive-by) to get rid of this issue, do something like: `::192.168.0.1` (prepend colons) .. error gone – Jul 17 '18 at 14:41

Sander Steffann · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-21T21:42:36.863

First of all: why would you care how the address is written? inet_pton() will parse all variations for you and give you a consistent result, which you can then transform into binary, hex, or whatever you want.

All the code for converting things like ::192.168.0.1 to 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:c0a8:0001 was actually in my post. That's exactly what my example function does.

If you feed 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:192.168.0.1 to inet_pton() and then to inet_ntop() you'll get the canonical IPv6 notation, which is ::192.168.0.1 in this case. If that string begins with :: and the rest contains no : and three dots then you can be pretty sure it's an IPv4 address ;-)

To combine the answer to your previous question with this question:

function expand_ip_address($addr_str) {
  /* First convert to binary, which also does syntax checking */
  $addr_bin = @inet_pton($addr_str);
  if ($addr_bin === FALSE) {
    return FALSE;
  }

  $addr_hex = bin2hex($addr_bin);

  /* See if this is an IPv4-Compatible IPv6 address (deprecated) or an
     IPv4-Mapped IPv6 Address (used when IPv4 connections are mapped to
     an IPv6 sockets and convert it to a normal IPv4 address */
  if (strlen($addr_bin) == 16
  &&  substr($addr_hex, 0, 20) == str_repeat('0', 20)) {
    /* First 80 bits are zero: now see if bits 81-96 are either all 0 or all 1 */
    if (substr($addr_hex, 20, 4) == '0000')
    ||  substr($addr_hex, 20, 4) == 'ffff')) {
      /* Remove leading bits so only the IPv4 bits remain */
      $addr_bin = substr($addr_hex, 12);
    }
  }

  /* Then differentiate between IPv4 and IPv6 */
  if (strlen($addr_bin) == 4) {
    /* IPv4: print each byte as 3 digits and add dots between them */
    $ipv4_bytes = str_split($addr_bin);
    $ipv4_ints = array_map('ord', $ipv4_bytes);
    return vsprintf('%03d.%03d.%03d.%03d', $ipv4_ints);
  } else {
    /* IPv6: print as hex and add colons between each group of 4 hex digits */
    return implode(':', str_split($addr_hex, 4));
  }
}

Sorry for the wait. I couldn't test it out until the end of a previous question, but in a test script, your code excelled from the other answers. Thank you very much ! This helps! — Florian Mertens, Jan 31 '13 at 17:30

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