Posted by Todd Cary on 09/08/05 01:39

I need to check the input of a user to make sure the date is valid and
correctly formatted. Are there any examples available?

Here is one solution I created:

/* Is date good */
function is_date_good($date) {
if (strtotime($date) == -1) {
$retval = 0;
} else {
if (strpos($date, "/") > 0) {
$parts = explode("/", $date);
} elseif (strpos($date, "-") > 0) {
$parts2 = explode("-", $date);
$parts[0] = $parts2[1];
$parts[1] = $parts2[2];
$parts[2] = $parts2[0];
} else {
$parts = explode(".", $date);
}
//print_r($parts);
if (checkdate($parts[0], $parts[1], $parts[2]) )
return 1;
else
return 0;
}
return $retval;
}

Is there a simplier solution?

Many thanks......

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