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estebant on 05/11/08


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Function to validate date format in PHP

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  1. function checkDateFormat($date)
  2. {
  3.   //match the format of the date
  4.   if (preg_match ("/^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})$/", $date, $parts))
  5.   {
  6.     //check weather the date is valid of not
  7. 	if(checkdate($parts[2],$parts[3],$parts[1]))
  8. 	  return true;
  9. 	else
  10. 	 return false;
  11.   }
  12.   else
  13.     return false;
  14. }
  16. echo checkDateFormat("2008-02-29"); //return true
  17. echo checkDateFormat("2007-02-29"); //return false

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