Re: checking user input of MM-DD-YYYY
| From: | Nathan Nobbe | Date: | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:40:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: checking user input of MM-DD-YYYY | ||
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On Jan 15, 2008 9:30 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
> Adam Williams wrote:
>
> > I'm having users enter dates in MM-DD-YYYY format. is there a way to
> > check if what they have entered is invalid (like if they enter
> > 1-15-2008 instead of 01-15-2008) ?
>
> A regular expression perhaps?
you might also experiment w/ the date_parse() function.
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse.php
-nathan