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Ip

Validates that a value is a valid IP address. By default, this will validate the value as IPv4, but a number of different options exist to validate as IPv6 and many other combinations.

Applies to property or method
Options
  • version
  • message
Class Ip
Validator IpValidator

Basic Usage

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# src/BlogBundle/Resources/config/validation.yml
Acme\BlogBundle\Entity\Author:
    properties:
        ipAddress:
            - Ip: ~
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// src/Acme/BlogBundle/Entity/Author.php
namespace Acme\BlogBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    /**
     * @Assert\Ip
     */
     protected $ipAddress;
}
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<!-- src/Acme/BlogBundle/Resources/config/validation.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<constraint-mapping xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping http://symfony.com/schema/dic/constraint-mapping/constraint-mapping-1.0.xsd">

    <class name="Acme\BlogBundle\Entity\Author">
        <property name="ipAddress">
            <constraint name="Ip" />
        </property>
    </class>
</constraint-mapping>
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// src/Acme/BlogBundle/Entity/Author.php
namespace Acme\BlogBundle\Entity;

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Mapping\ClassMetadata;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

class Author
{
    public static function loadValidatorMetadata(ClassMetadata $metadata)
    {
        $metadata->addPropertyConstraint('ipAddress', new Assert\Ip());
    }
}

Options

version

type: string default: 4

This determines exactly how the IP address is validated and can take one of a variety of different values:

All ranges

  • 4 - Validates for IPv4 addresses
  • 6 - Validates for IPv6 addresses
  • all - Validates all IP formats

No private ranges

  • 4_no_priv - Validates for IPv4 but without private IP ranges
  • 6_no_priv - Validates for IPv6 but without private IP ranges
  • all_no_priv - Validates for all IP formats but without private IP ranges

No reserved ranges

  • 4_no_res - Validates for IPv4 but without reserved IP ranges
  • 6_no_res - Validates for IPv6 but without reserved IP ranges
  • all_no_res - Validates for all IP formats but without reserved IP ranges

Only public ranges

  • 4_public - Validates for IPv4 but without private and reserved ranges
  • 6_public - Validates for IPv6 but without private and reserved ranges
  • all_public - Validates for all IP formats but without private and reserved ranges

message

type: string default: This is not a valid IP address.

This message is shown if the string is not a valid IP address.

This work, including the code samples, is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license.
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