Database Agnostic Types

Database Agnostic Types#

These types can be used with any database supported by Doctrine.

Groups#

Types can be divided in several groups:

  • By IP version

    • IPv4 only

    • IPv6 only

    • Both IPv4 and IPv6

  • By storage

    • Text

    • Binary

  • By values

    • Single IP addresses

    • CIDR blocks

All Types#

Arokettu\IP\Doctrine\*Type

All combinations of the params above exist.

IP Address

CIDR Block

Text

Binary

Text

Binary

IPv4

IPv4AddressType

IPv4AddressBinaryType

IPv4BlockType

IPv4BlockBinaryType

IPv6

IPv6AddressType

IPv6AddressBinaryType

IPv6BlockType

IPv6BlockBinaryType

IPv4 + IPv6

IPAddressType

IPAddressBinaryType

IPBlockType

IPBlockBinaryType

IPv6 and Varchar#

Please note that there is more than one way to express a human-readable IPv6. For example, mapped IPv4 192.168.0.123 (0x00000000000000000000ffffc0a8007b) can be written as ::ffff:192.168.0.123, as ::ffff:c0a8:7b, and as 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:c0a8:007b. Therefore if you need to search for duplicate IPs, especially if this library is not the only code that writes to your database, binary form should be preferred.