Hello all, I wrote a library for matching IP addresses, ranges, and networks against eachother with support for subnet masks, CIDR, and IPv6 a few months ago. It's useful for writing IP filters (firewall-esque) and such. It uses bitwise mathematical calculations to do the matching, so it's quick and solid.
I'd like to adapt it into Zend Framework. What are your thoughts on creating a Zend_Net package? Here are some quick off-the-top classes I think would be useful: Zend_Net_Address (for example) * Class to represent and translate IP addresses (IPv4 -> IPv6 for example) * Class to represent and translate network addresses * Class to represent other protocol addresses, such as MAC address * Class to handle matching an input IP or range against a pool of classes from the above examples quick ex: $oNetwork = new Zend_Net_Address_Network_IPv4( '192.168.0.0', '255.255.255.0' ); // give me an array of Zend_Net_Address_Host_IPv4 objects within this network $aAddressesIp4 = $oNetwork->getAddresses(); // tell me the class of some IPv4 address $oHost = new Zend_Net_Address_IPv4( $sUserInput ); echo $oHost->getNetworkClass(); // is the address a private address? echo $oHost->isPrivate() ? 'yes' : 'no'; What are your thoughts? I can think of a few use-cases where this would be useful for rapid development and easy cooperation with the rest of Zend Framework. -- A.J. Brown Zend Certfied PHP Engineer HOME: http://ajbrown.me BLOG: http://coding-adventures.blogspot.com
