verification

[Anon]

Hi i'm just creating a site with a database on it that people can add things to online, however i want them to add the date in one field and the time in another, here's my pondry, i want it to check the date they enter, against todays date and only accept it if the date is today or after, no old dates. The time needs to be entered in a 24 hour version only as well. I hope this makes sense to someone, thanks Martin

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I think you may want to add some checking to see if the date entered is in the correct format too.
Users are "stupid" by definition, and will enter the date in the wrong format...

[Anon]

Here's a stupid question, what's the code i require to get todays date, so that i can set my if ($date < $todaysdate) { etc..

thanks Martin

[[deleted]]

Stupid is a big word.

Have a peek at the manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/function.strftime.php

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and this one

http://www.php.net/manual/function.mktime.php

[Anon]

Thanks for the help, just one final question, i've got it working so that it checks the date the user types in against todays date and it will not allow any date that has gone, however i need it to check the way that the use types it in e.g.

YYYY-MM-DD

basically if they type in YY-MM-DD it'll throw up an error, any ideas? thanks again, Martin

[lth2h]

I'd use JavaScript to do this.

Something along the lines of

function isValid(theForm) {

if (theForm.number.value.length != 10)
 {
   alert("Your date must be in the format YYYY-MM-DD");
}

}

<form name=theForm>
<input name=number>
<input type=submit onclick=isValid(theForm)>
</form>

If this doesn't work there are plenty of tutorials on the web for this. Just search for JavaScript form validation.