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Cake PHP age validation

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  1. /**
  2. * Poor man's age limit validation
  3. * Due to the lack of simple and exact PHP time diff function,
  4. * we conveniently forget leap years
  5. */
  6. function ageLimit( $data, $reqAge ) {
  7.     $date = strtotime( $data['birthday'] );
  8.     if( $date !== false && $date !== -1 ) { // strtotime returns -1 < PHP 5.1.0
  9.         $diff = time() - $date;
  10.         return ( $diff / 31556926 > $reqAge ); // 31556926 seconds in a year
  11.     }
  12.     return false; // date malformed
  13. }

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