Re: No is_date() function?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:30:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: No is_date() function? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wed, July 25, 2007 8:55 am, Ken Tozier wrote:
> 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);
PHP has no 'date' type...
So what you are calling a date is one of these:
1) An integer representing Unix timestamp (is_int())
2) Some fancy OOP object (use OOP isa function)
3) A string that happens to look like a date to humans
a) strtotime might work
b) a preg_match might work better
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