On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:57 AM, David Muir <davidkmuir+z...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Zend_Date is next to useless for validating dates: > http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-7583 > Well, that confirms that. Thanks. > You're better off building your own date validator. > Everything seems to work as expected as long as you make sure the date is in the expected format (in my case, by inserting a Zend_Validate_Regex rule before Zend_Validate_Date). For example, with that setup, an input of "29.2.2008" (February 29, 2008, a leap year) validates, while an input of "29.2.2009" (February 29, 2009, not a leap year) fails validation, as expected. An input of "2.29.2011" throws an exception (Unable to parse date '2.29.2011' using 'd.M.YYYY' (M <> d)), which is also expected. It's apparently the format that's near useless for validation. It's only seems to be good for hinting at the order in which the various parts should appear in the input. Ryan
