Sounds like a very useful class to me also. Terre
-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Plock Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [fw-general] Re: Zend_Net Package? A.J. Brown wrote: > 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 > Hi A.J., I'd be interested in this class. Have you submitted a CLA to Zend? If so, why don't you submit a proposal at http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Home Thanks. -Justin
