gethostbyname

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

gethostbyname — Get the IP address corresponding to a given Internet host name

string gethostbyname ( string $hostname )

Returns the IP address of the Internet host specified by hostname .

Returns the IP address or a string containing the unmodified hostname on failure.

Example #1 A simple gethostbyname() example


<?php
$ip = gethostbyname('www.example.com');

echo $ip;
?>

gethostbyaddr() - Get the Internet host name corresponding to a given IP address
gethostbynamel() - Get a list of IP addresses corresponding to a given Internet host name