Re: Date validation

What about using this: $date = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d", "2011-05-20"); -- João Cândido de Souza Neto "Geoff Lane" <geoff@gjctech.co.uk> escreveu na mensagem news:11565581.20110520132924@gjctech.co.uk... > Hi All, > > I'm scratching my head trying to remember how I validated string > representation of dates 'the first time around' with PHP (before going > over to ASP/VBScript for almost a decade). I have a feeling that I > must have rolled my own validation function, because I can't find > anything other than strtotime() and checkdate() in PHP itself. > > Although checkdate() seems fine, strtotime() appears to be 'broken'. > It seems where possible to return a timestamp that makes some sense > rather than return FALSE when handed an invalid date. For example, > strtotime('30 Feb 1999') returns 920332800, which is equivalent to > strtotime('02 Mar 1999'). When I ask a user to enter a date and they > make a typo, forget that September only has 30 days, etc., I want to > be able to detect the problem rather than post a date in the following > month! > > It also seems that where the DateTime class uses string representation > of dates, times, or intervals that these must be 'in a format accepted > by strtotime()'; which implies that 'under the hood' strtotime() is > used to convert the string to a date/time value, which implies that > the Date/Time class cannot properly handle string input values. > > This seems to be such a common requirement that I suspect I've missed > something basic. I'd thus be grateful for any pointers as to how to > properly validate user-input string representation of dates. > > Cheers, > > -- > Geoff Lane >