Get the IPv4 address corresponding to a given Internet host name in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to get the IPv4 address corresponding to a given Internet host name.

Example

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

The code above generates the following result.