laravel 4 saving ip address to model

Question

I\'m trying to save a user ip address to my database using Laravel 4. I found the following function which returns a string

Request::getClientIp()
         


        

Answer 1

$table->string('ip_address', 39); 

Because the maximum length of an IPv6 address is 39.

IPv4 will be supported as it's length doesn't exceeds 15.