note 119604 deleted from function.checkdate by peehaa

Note Submitter: whitej71 at msu dot edu ---- The below suggested date validation (from another note) does NOT work for ALL formats and date inputs. function validateDate($date, $format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s') { $d = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $date); return $d && $d->format($format) == $date; } A couple of examples should suffice as a warning to test carefully and particularly not to use code that allows passing in of just any date format string: var_dump(validateDate('7/01/16', 'n/j/y')); # false but should be true var_dump(validateDate('7/1/16', 'm/d/y')); # false but should be true Sorry, I don't have a suggested correction.