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Correctly determine if date string is a valid date in that format
PHP Snippet 1:
var_dump(validateDate('2013-13-01')); // false
var_dump(validateDate('20132-13-01')); // false
var_dump(validateDate('2013-11-32')); // false
var_dump(validateDate('2012-2-25')); // false
var_dump(validateDate('2013-12-01')); // true
var_dump(validateDate('1970-12-01')); // true
var_dump(validateDate('2012-02-29')); // true
var_dump(validateDate('2012', 'Y')); // true
var_dump(validateDate('12012', 'Y')); // false
PHP Snippet 2:
function checkIsAValidDate($myDateString){
return (bool)strtotime($myDateString);
}
PHP Snippet 3:
function checkmydate($date) {
$tempDate = explode('-', $date);
// checkdate(month, day, year)
return checkdate($tempDate[1], $tempDate[2], $tempDate[0]);
}
PHP Snippet 4:
checkmydate('2015-12-01'); //true
checkmydate('2015-14-04'); //false
PHP Snippet 5:
<?php
function validateDateTime($dateStr, $format)
{
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $dateStr);
return $date && ($date->format($format) === $dateStr);
}
// These return true
validateDateTime('2001-03-10 17:16:18', 'Y-m-d H:i:s');
validateDateTime('2001-03-10', 'Y-m-d');
validateDateTime('2001', 'Y');
validateDateTime('Mon', 'D');
validateDateTime('March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm', 'F j, Y, g:i a');
validateDateTime('March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm', 'F j, Y, g:i a');
validateDateTime('03.10.01', 'm.d.y');
validateDateTime('10, 3, 2001', 'j, n, Y');
validateDateTime('20010310', 'Ymd');
validateDateTime('05-16-18, 10-03-01', 'h-i-s, j-m-y');
validateDateTime('Monday 8th of August 2005 03:12:46 PM', 'l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');
validateDateTime('Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:28:57', 'D, d M Y H:i:s');
validateDateTime('17:03:18 is the time', 'H:m:s \i\s \t\h\e \t\i\m\e');
validateDateTime('17:16:18', 'H:i:s');
// These return false
validateDateTime('2001-03-10 17:16:18', 'Y-m-D H:i:s');
validateDateTime('2001', 'm');
validateDateTime('Mon', 'D-m-y');
validateDateTime('Mon', 'D-m-y');
validateDateTime('2001-13-04', 'Y-m-d');
PHP Snippet 6:
$timestamp = strtotime($date);
return $timestamp ? $date : null;
PHP Snippet 7:
$date="2013-13-01";
if (preg_match("/^[0-9]{4}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[0-1])$/",$date))
{
echo 'Date is valid';
}else{
echo 'Date is invalid';
}
PHP Snippet 8:
function isValidDate($date) {
return date('Y-m-d', strtotime($date)) === $date;
}
PHP Snippet 9:
function validateDate($date, $format = 'Y-m-d') {
DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $date);
$errors = DateTime::getLastErrors();
return $errors['warning_count'] === 0 && $errors['error_count'] === 0;
}
PHP Snippet 10:
function checkmydate($date) {
$tempDate = explode('-', $date);
return checkdate($tempDate[1], $tempDate[2], $tempDate[0]);
}
PHP Snippet 11:
checkmydate('2015-12-01');//true
checkmydate('2015-14-04');//false
PHP Snippet 12:
<?php
function validateDateTime($format)
{
return function($dateStr) use ($format) {
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $dateStr);
return $date && $date->format($format) === $dateStr;
};
}
PHP Snippet 13:
validateDateTime('Y-m-d H:i:s')('2017-02-06 17:07:11'); // true
PHP Snippet 14:
// Get a partially applied function
$validate = validateDateTime('Y-m-d H:i:s');
// Now you can use it everywhere, without repeating the format!
$validate('2017-02-06 17:09:31'); // true
$validate('1999-03-31 07:07:07'); // true
$validate('13-2-4 3:2:45'); // false
PHP Snippet 15:
$dateTime = 'an invalid datetime';
try {
$dateTimeObject = new DateTime($dateTime);
} catch (Exception $exc) {
echo 'Do something with an invalid DateTime';
}
PHP Snippet 16:
$date = '2019-02-30';
$date_parts = explode( '-', $date );
if(checkdate( $date_parts[1], $date_parts[2], $date_parts[0] )){
//date is valid
}else{
//date is invalid
}
PHP Snippet 17:
function isValidDate($date)
{
if (preg_match("/^(((((1[26]|2[048])00)|[12]\d([2468][048]|[13579][26]|0[48]))-((((0[13578]|1[02])-(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]))|((0[469]|11)-(0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)))|(02-(0[1-9]|[12]\d))))|((([12]\d([02468][1235679]|[13579][01345789]))|((1[1345789]|2[1235679])00))-((((0[13578]|1[02])-(0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01]))|((0[469]|11)-(0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)))|(02-(0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))))$/", $date)) {
return $date;
}
return null;
}
PHP Snippet 18:
/*********************************************************************************
Returns TRUE if the input parameter is a valid date string in "YYYY-MM-DD" format (aka "MySQL date format")
The date separator can be only the '-' character.
*********************************************************************************/
function isMysqlDate($yyyymmdd)
{
return checkdate(substr($yyyymmdd, 5, 2), substr($yyyymmdd, 8), substr($yyyymmdd, 0, 4))
&& (substr($yyyymmdd, 4, 1) === '-')
&& (substr($yyyymmdd, 7, 1) === '-');
}
PHP Snippet 19:
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Ymd', $value);
$is_datetime = ($date instanceof DateTime);
$is_valid_datetime_format = $is_datetime
? ($date->format('Ymd') === $value)
: false;
if (!$is_datetime || !$is_valid_datetime_format) {
// Not a valid date.
return false;
}
PHP Snippet 20:
/**** date check is a recursive function. it's need 3 argument
MONTH,DAY,YEAR. ******/
$always_valid_date = $this->date_check($month,$day,$year);
private function date_check($month,$day,$year){
/** checkdate() is a php function that check a date is valid
or not. if valid date it's return true else false. **/
$status = checkdate($month,$day,$year);
if($status == true){
$always_valid_date = $year . '-' . $month . '-' . $day;
return $always_valid_date;
}else{
$day = ($day - 1);
/**recursive call**/
return $this->date_check($month,$day,$year);
}
}
PHP Snippet 21:
$date = \DateTime::createFromFormat('d/m/Y', $dataRowValue);
if (!empty($date)) {
//Your logic
}else{
//Error
}
PHP Snippet 22:
function verify_date($date){
/* correct format = "2012-09-15 11:23:32" or "2012-09-15"*/
if (preg_match("/^[0-9]{4}-(0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|3[0-1])( (0[0-9]|[1-2][0-4]):(0[0-9]|[1-5][0-9]):(0[0-9]|[1-5][0-9]))?$/",$date)) {
return true;
} else {
die("Wrong date format: it should be '2012-09-15 11:23:32' or '2012-09-15', date received is: ".$date);
}
}
PHP Snippet 23:
$date = "2017-10-01";
function date_checker($input,$devider){
$output = false;
$input = explode($devider, $input);
$year = $input[0];
$month = $input[1];
$day = $input[2];
if (is_numeric($year) && is_numeric($month) && is_numeric($day)) {
if (strlen($year) == 4 && strlen($month) == 2 && strlen($day) == 2) {
$output = true;
}
}
return $output;
}
if (date_checker($date, '-')) {
echo "The function is working";
}else {
echo "The function isNOT working";
}