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Posted by Eli on 10/04/57 11:10
David Bevan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to validate a date submitted through a
> form and I cannot decide which would be the best way
> to do it. The form of the date needs to be:
> YYYY-MM-DD.
> At the moment I'm torn between using a regex,
> something like: 20[\d][\d]-[0-1][\d]-[0-3][\d]
> or using the checkdate() function.
>
> Does anyone have any pros and/or cons to implement one
> method over the other or other methods you may have
> used?
>
> Thanks,
> David
Better use checkdate, since it checks if the date really exists (not
just well formatted).
Mabye do something like this:
list($check_year,$check_month,$check_day) = explode("-",$date);
if (checkdate($check_month,$check_day,$check_year))
echo "Date is valid";
else
echo "Date is not valid";
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