note 65983 added to function.preg-match

function to validate and extract date parts from the string in following formats: dd-mm-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy or dd mm yyyy d-m-yyyy and so on actually delimiter is what ever exept a number funtion get_correct_date($input = ''){ //clean up the input $input = trim($input); //matching pattern $pattern = '/^([1-9]|0[1-9]|[12][1-9]|3[01])\D([1-9]|0[1-9]|1[012])\D (19[0-9][0-9]|20[0-9][0-9])$/'; //check the input preg_match(input ,$pattern, $parts); return $parts; } function will return empty array on failure or parts of the date as array(dd,mm,yyyy); note: remove empty space from pattern if you copy it from here ---- Server IP: 80.81.171.181 Probable Submitter: 194.251.240.117 (proxied: 1.0 hud8-hki:80 (DataReactor/4.0.7p3)) ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/65983 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65983/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65983/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65983/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65983/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65983/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65983/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/65983 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/65983 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php