Formatting IPv6 as an int in C# and storing it in SQL Server

Question

Under IPv4 I have been parsing the string representation of IP addresses to Int32 and storing them as INT in the SQL Server

Answer 1

function encode_ip ($ip)
{
    return bin2hex(inet_pton($ip));
}

function decode_ip($ip)
{
    function hex2bin($temp) {
       $data="";
       for ($i=0; $i < strlen($temp); $i+=2) $data.=chr(hexdec(substr($temp,$i,2)));
       return $data;
    }
    return inet_ntop(hex2bin($ip));
}

---

-- max len row db
echo strlen(inet_pton('2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334'));

-- db row info
ip varchar(16)

-- sql binary save and read
save base
$bin_ip='0x'.bin2hex(inet_pton($data['ip_address']));

-- db read
select ip_address from users;

-- encode binary from db
echo inet_ntop($row['ip_address']);