Re: checking user input of MM-DD-YYYY
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:02:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: checking user input of MM-DD-YYYY | ||
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Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> i think this ties into the thread tedd started a week or so ago
> about the best approach for collecting user data.
> it would be much easier to validate if there were 3 text input fields
> to collect the data, rather than 1, free-form field.
I would stick to one date field with a simple javascript validation
(using a regex) at entry time followed by a semantic check that the
given day exists in the given month/year.
Of course, if you'd rather not use javascript, you could validate the
whole thing after POST.
/Per Jessen, Zürich