Re: Filters and sanitizing a regexp

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote: > Eric Butera wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Richard Lynch <rlynch@peak6.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> >>>>> 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... >>> >>> 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. >> >> In 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. > > you know you could just change the input to a date selector / calender / 3 > text boxes > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Yep.