What are the best practices for handling subnet scanning in PHP to ensure efficient and accurate results?

Subnet scanning in PHP can be efficiently and accurately handled by using the `ip2long()` function to convert IP addresses to integers and then iterating through the range of IPs in the subnet to check for active hosts. This approach allows for faster comparison and calculation of IP addresses within the subnet. 

<?php
function scanSubnet($subnet) {
    list($network, $mask) = explode('/', $subnet);
    $network_long = ip2long($network);
    $mask_long = -1 << (32 - $mask);
    
    for ($i = 1; $i < pow(2, (32 - $mask)); $i++) {
        $ip = long2ip($network_long + $i);
        // Perform scanning logic for each IP in the subnet
    }
}

// Example usage
scanSubnet('192.168.1.0/24');
?>

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