Re: Making sure a date field is entered.

I never thought of that one... will require more work but that's ok.. Thanks for your help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ignatius Teo" <iteo@scu.edu.au> To: "'Tom Peck'" <tompeck@paradise.net.nz>; "'PHP'" <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 2:02 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Making sure a date field is entered. > Hmmm. checkdate only accepts (int) month, day, year as parameters, so you have to extract the info from your form var. > > I would suggest using <select> drop boxes to restrict the input - that might make it easier. > > Ignatius > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tom Peck [mailto:tompeck@paradise.net.nz] > > Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2000 11:39 > > To: PHP > > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Making sure a date field is entered. > > > > > > Hello All > > > > Is there a PHP function which can make sure a string is a > > date? I have a > > form where a date is entered in the format: "Saturday 23 > > August". The form > > gets passed onto another page which makes sure all the fields > > are correct - > > but I'm stumped as how to make sure that this date has been > > put in properly. > > It needs to be inserted properly so that I can run a database > > query getting > > all the data from a database, ordered by Date... > > > > Thanks for any help. > > > > Tom > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >