Below is a merged form of all various notes, and a better (and correct) network matching function.
<?php
function net_match($network, $ip) {
$ip_arr = explode('/', $network);
$network_long = ip2long($ip_arr[0]);
$x = ip2long($ip_arr[1]);
$mask = long2ip($x) == $ip_arr[1] ? $x : 0xffffffff << (32 - $ip_arr[1]);
$ip_long = ip2long($ip);
return ($ip_long & $mask) == ($network_long & $mask);
}
echo net_match('192.168.17.1/16', '192.168.15.1')."\n"; echo net_match('127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255', '127.0.0.2')."\n"; echo net_match('10.0.0.1', '10.0.0.1')."\n"; ?>