Re: Filters and sanitizing a regexp
| From: | Nathan Rixham | Date: | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:23:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Filters and sanitizing a regexp | ||
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Eric Butera wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Richard Lynch <rlynch@peak6.com> wrote:you know you could just change the input to a date selector / calender / 3 text boxesIn the sites I write I have a lot of success with strtotime as long as I have a - to / converter. I also put a note of (Format date as MM/DD/YYYY). Funny that people still seem to want to type -'s. We're all creatures of habit, right? There is always a way to edit stuff though so it isn't the end of the world if it goes weird.-----Original Message-----Plus, strtotime() does non-intuitive things with some inputs... I'd insist on at least some kind of confirmation page if you use that beast.hate to say this but why not cater for all eventualities and just use strtotime( $whatever );Well it just doesn't have enough geek factor...