Re: How should I ....--its a date/timestamp issue

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 17:16 -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 03:55:16PM -0600, Terion Miller wrote: > > > What are your suggestions folks on how to go about setting a date on a form > > so that a user can not set a start date prior to the current days date? > > I've been looking around php.net but is it a javascript thing in the > > validation I should be dealing with, basically as it is I have a form and a > > user can select a start date, but they should not be able to select a date > > that is past, currently the start date form is a drop down (a very long drop > > down) I would like to use one of those nifty calendar popups but am not sure > > (aka..wasn't able to figure out) how to send the date to the db fields as > > they are... > > guidance on this would be great ..how would you do it? > > thanks guys and gals > > Terion > > Broadly, you're either going to have to limit their choices going in to > the form (limit the choices in the drop-down box), or validate it > afterwards and generate an error message if it's wrong. > > I've never seen one of those calendar gizmos that wasn't Javascript, > except maybe for Ashley's (mentioned in another thread). And even at > that, a PHP one won't be selectable the way you want unless you put > radio buttons next to all the dates. And after all that, you'd still > have to do some pre-processing of it to limit selections to current date > and later. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > What about just accepting any date in to the system, and defaulting to the current date if any numptys/users try to set one before? Do something maybe like this (untested) $userDate = strtotime($_REQUEST['date']); $startDate = ($userDate < time())?time():$userDate; >From there, you can use the timestamp how you wish. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk