Could be my not understanding of something, but I think there is a bug in
using ip2long() and sprintf(%u) as indicated on this page:
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.ip2long.php

Look at the example below:

//this conversion seems broken
// $startIP_long = sprintf("%u",ip2long($QRange1));
// $endIP_long = sprintf("%u",ip2long($QRange2));

$startIP_long = ip2long($QRange1);
$endIP_long = ip2long($QRange2);

echo "QRange1 = ".$QRange1." and QRange2 = ".$QRange2."<BR>";
echo "startIP_long = ".$startIP_long." and endIP_long =
".$endIP_long."<BR>";
echo "startIP_long = ".long2ip($startIP_long)." and endIP_long =
".long2ip($endIP_long)."<BR>";


The first //commented block will give:

QRange1 = 192.169.12.40 and QRange2 = 192.169.20.40
startIP_long = 3232304168 and endIP_long = 3232306216
startIP_long = 127.255.255.255 and endIP_long = 127.255.255.255

(wtf did the "127.255.255.255" come from?!)

While the second works properly...

QRange1 = 192.169.12.40 and QRange2 = 192.169.20.40
startIP_long = -1062663128 and endIP_long = -1062661080
startIP_long = 192.169.12.40 and endIP_long = 192.169.20.40

What version of php? It works find in 4.3.3.

echo long2ip(3232304168);
---
192.169.12.40

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Good point...

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Also, if you notice, in my example, the problem was using the sprintf (%u)
as per the example on the php website. Just doing like you did works for me
too...

still works using sprintf() with 4.3.3
http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/php/te...ng/ip2long.php


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