Re: Simpler way to validate form fields? [message #179801 is a reply to message #179800] |
Thu, 06 December 2012 16:50 |
Gilles Ganault
Messages: 27 Registered: September 2010
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On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:55:51 +0100, Gilles <nospam(at)nospam(dot)com> wrote:
> function getDateFromForm($key, $l=8, $val=null) {
> //Check for date DD/MM/YYYY
> return (isset($_GET[$key])) ?
> filter_var(substr($_GET[$key],0,$l),
>
> FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP,array("options"=>array("regexp"=>"/^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}/ "))
> )
> : $val;
> }
>
> //http://192.168.0.1/test.php?mydate=01/02/2012
> print getDateFromForm("mydate");
Turns out I should have used "/^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}$/". Regardless,
this doesn't check that the date looks kosher, eg. 99/99/9999 is
considered OK, so it looks like it's loetter to use something else
such as:
if (DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $string))
Thanks for the help.
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