Re: Re: Date validation

On 20 May 2011 16:47, Geoff Lane <geoff@gjctech.co.uk> wrote: *snip* >>> Also, AFAICT createFromFormat fails if the date is not formatted >>> according to the first parameter. So, for example: >>>  $date = DateTime::createFromFormat('d M Y', '5/2/10') >>> fails ... (at least, it does on my system :( ) >>> > >> I'm sorry for asking but what did you expect?? You're specifically >> calling a method that parses a string according to a given format. If >> it parsed the string according to any other format, that would be a >> huge WTF. > > Don't feel sorry to have asked, because it's exactly what I expected. > João suggested using createFromFormat. Since I need to validate dates > input in any valid form, I felt it wouldn't work and my comment was to > João to that effect. That said, I've seen some weird and unexpected > results from my development server recently (e.g. my post of 16 May re > weird cookie behaviour) which was why I added the proviso "(at least, > it does on my system)" just in case that method wasn't meant to behave > as I inferred. > > With all that said, I still have no 'out of the box' method to > validate a user-input date string and I haven't been able to find the > code I used with PHP 3.something before my sojourn into the depths of > ASP to know how I used to do this! > My bad, I jumped into the middle of a thread - sorry. Try: $date = new DateTime($date_string_to_validate); echo $date->format('Y-m-d'); Regards Peter