Anonymous has a good point (though I don't agree with pushing to execution to shell unless I have to. However this is a faster example (explode then loop is a little too intensive for a simple check)
<?php
function gethost ($ip)
{
if( preg_match('/^(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:[.]
(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}$/', $ip) )
{
$host = `host $ip`;
return (($host ? end ( explode (' ', $host)) : $ip));
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
?>
Though to be honest I would use:
<?php
function gethost ($ip)
{
return ( preg_match('/^(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)(?:[.]
(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|1\d\d|[1-9]\d|\d)){3}$/', $ip) ) ? gethostbyaddr($ip) : false;
}
?>
