Check on date format..

Hi,

I have a form with a field called available date which i need to make sure is correct. When posted i want to check that the date they entered is the current year e.g. 2007 and also that the entry is in this format yyyy-mm-dd.

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers,
Adam

 

list($year, $month, $day) = array_map('intval', explode('-', $_POST['date']));

if ($year != date('Y') OR !checkdate($month, $day, $year))
{
    // Wrong year or non-existing calendar date.
}

PHP:

 

or use a regular expression to validate syntax:

([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})

Code (markup):

 

cheers nico, just what i am after

 

I think i spoke to soon. I am entering the following date 2007-08-13 and it is not allowing this to go through even though it is valid.

Any ideas?

 

Dude I never knew about that checkdate function, thats the tits!
Cheers