gethostbyname

Get the IP address corresponding to a given Internet host name (PHP 3, PHP 4 )
string gethostbyname ( string hostname )

Returns the IP address of the Internet host specified by hostname or a string containing the unmodified hostname on failure.

Example 642. A simple gethostbyname() example

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

print $ip;
?>

See also gethostbyaddr().

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