What alternative method is suggested in the forum thread to compare IPs?

The issue is that comparing IP addresses using the equality operator (==) may not work as expected due to different formats or representations of the IPs. One alternative method suggested in the forum thread is to use the `inet_pton` function to convert the IP addresses to a binary format before comparing them. 

$ip1 = '192.168.1.1';
$ip2 = '192.168.1.1';

$binaryIp1 = inet_pton($ip1);
$binaryIp2 = inet_pton($ip2);

if ($binaryIp1 === $binaryIp2) {
    echo 'IP addresses are equal';
} else {
    echo 'IP addresses are not equal';
}

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