Re: No is_date() function?

Thanks Lars I saw that one already but unfortunately, it doesn't help as it requires 3 inputs . What I'm shooting for is an 'is_date' function that returns true or false with no prior knowledge of what a variable might contain. Ken On Jul 25, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Lars Haßler wrote:

Hi, there is a function to check a valid date: http://de3.php.net/manual/de/function.checkdate.php may help

Hi I wrote a serialization function to turn arbitrary PHP variables into Macintosh plist compatible XML but see that there is no "is_date" tester as there is for bool, object, array etc. Is there a relatively simple (and robust) way to detect if a variable is a date? For example: $person = array('name'=>'bob', 'sex'=>'male', 'date_of_birth'=> $someDateHere); Thanks for any help Ken