Re: how to control if it is a date
| From: | Alain Roger | Date: | Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:06:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how to control if it is a date | ||
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thanks i did not know it.
On 3/24/07, Brice <brice.favre@gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/24/07, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, user can enter a string with following format dd.mm.yyyy. Application should transform it to postgresql timestamp date. however, i would like to be sure that what user typed is a real and valid date. how can i do that ? With checkdate i think : http://php.net/checkdate Brice Favre i was thinking to use date(string format, strtotime(string_entered_by_user)); but it does not ensure me that it is a valid date... thx. -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP2 PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Apache 2.0.58 PHP 5-- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP2 PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Apache 2.0.58 PHP 5