Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard datetime.c
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:59:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: php4 /ext/standard datetime.c | ||
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> I don't quite understand this fix.
> Why only require the year to be a long and not month & day.
> Also think of checkdate("12","12","12");
> Why shouldn't this work?
> What is wrong with just using convert_to_long_ex() for all three?
> If the user sends junk then like the rest of PHP it will convert it to a
> number and he'll get a wrong result; or bad input should be handled in a
> more consistent way.
Well, something like "abc" will be converted to 0 which is invalid for the
day and the month arguments. However, 0 is a valid year argument. Saying
that checkdate(12,12,'abc') is a valid date sucks.
-Rasmus