Re: Date / Time question
| From: | Andreas Pour | Date: | Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:28:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Date / Time question | ||
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"Paulson, Joseph V. \"Jay\"" wrote:
>
> Hello everyone--
> I'm trying to validate a date to make sure that it isn't any date before the
> current date (i.e. today's date is 08-25-2000 and I don't want any dates
> before that date). Right now I have one function that checks to make sure
> that the actual date is a valid date, however it doesn't check if the date
> is before today's date.
>
> The application I am making is setting appointments and it's kind of dumb to
> set an appointment for yesterday. I'm not too sure how exactly to go and
> perform this check on the date so any help would be great!
mktime() is your friend -- e.g., if
if (mktime( ARGS ) < time())
error: it's too early
To get your ARGS use ereg/preg/split on the sumbmitted date.
Ciao,
Andreas