On Mon, October 9, 2006 11:26 am, Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote: > Is there a PHP function which verifies a valid date has been entered > (YYYY-MM-DD)? Ron
Note that both solutions so far are only partial solutions for most real world scenarios. For example: 0001-12-25 will pass both, and would appear to be Christmas #1 to the average human eye, or a least readily identifiable in context as such. Unfortunately, we've made rather of mess of dates and calendars over the centuries, and 0001-12-25 is unlikely to be "correct" in any real sense of the word, for most applications. So you probably should include several more stringent checks suitable to your web application. Some examples: Birth dates for living humans would be current date - 120 years range. Credit card expirations should be current date + 10 years (I think...) -- Actually, older dates are 'valid' but the credit card won't go through anyway, so that might need 2 separate checks. My point being that there really cannot be a single "valid" date check because there's no way to be certain of the unique needs of your web application. The vagaries of date/time input are legion. And don't even get me started on the goofball 15-minute offset time-zone thing... :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
