Question

I am writing a script that gets the visitors IP, removes the dots off it with explode, stores the IP without dots in the database, and then gets it and echoes it.
But, my IP gets really messed up when I store it into the database.

HERE IS THE CODE!

EXAMPLE: My ip is 178.175.35.205 , without dots: 17817535205 , but when gone through MYSQL, I can even see it on PhpMyAdmin, is transformed to 2147483647.

UPDATE: Turns out everything was fine, but I was using INT except for BIGINT. That fixed it.
I am now using ip2long and long2ip.

Answer 1

Do not reinvent the wheel

use http://php.net/manual/en/function.ip2long.php and http://php.net/manual/en/function.long2ip.php
functions to do conversions.

It would also validate it for you

$ipToStore =  ip2long($ip);
if (false !== $ipToStore) {
    // Store your ip
}

// Read DB
echo long2ip($ipFromDB);

Make sure in db to use BIGINT to store it.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-types.html#integer-types