Re: Date validation

On Friday, May 20, 2011, João Cândido de Souza Neto wrote: > What about using regular expression to validate so using DateTime > object to parse it if it?s a valid date? Again, thanks. For info, I only need to know that it's a valid representation of a date on this occasion as I intend to use the MySQL CAST function to do the actual conversion within the INSERT or UPDATE SQL statement that commits the value to the underlying database. I strongly suspect that you're correct in that I should be able to use a regexp to do the validation. This could well be the catalyst that gets my sleeves rolled up, a large pot of strong, black coffee on the hob, and me finally trying that little bit harder to get my head around regular expressions! I was hoping that PHP would have an equivalent to VBScript's IsDate() function but it looks like I'll have to roll my own! Thanks again, -- Geoff