With DateTime you can make the shortest date&time validator for all formats.
<?php
function validateDate($date, $format = 'Y-m-d H:i:s')
{
$d = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, $date);
return $d && $d->format($format) == $date;
}
var_dump(validateDate('2012-02-28 12:12:12')); # true
var_dump(validateDate('2012-02-30 12:12:12')); # false
var_dump(validateDate('2012-02-28', 'Y-m-d')); # true
var_dump(validateDate('28/02/2012', 'd/m/Y')); # true
var_dump(validateDate('30/02/2012', 'd/m/Y')); # false
var_dump(validateDate('14:50', 'H:i')); # true
var_dump(validateDate('14:77', 'H:i')); # false
var_dump(validateDate(14, 'H')); # true
var_dump(validateDate('14', 'H')); # true
var_dump(validateDate('2012-02-28T12:12:12+02:00', 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sP')); # true
# or
var_dump(validateDate('2012-02-28T12:12:12+02:00', DateTime::ATOM)); # true
var_dump(validateDate('Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:12:12 +0200', 'D, d M Y H:i:s O')); # true
# or
var_dump(validateDate('Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:12:12 +0200', DateTime::RSS)); # true
var_dump(validateDate('Tue, 27 Feb 2012 12:12:12 +0200', DateTime::RSS)); # false
# ...
checkdate
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
checkdate — Validate a Gregorian date
Description
Checks the validity of the date formed by the arguments. A date is considered valid if each parameter is properly defined.
Parameters
-
month -
The month is between 1 and 12 inclusive.
-
day -
The day is within the allowed number of days for the given
month. Leapyears are taken into consideration. -
year -
The year is between 1 and 32767 inclusive.
Return Values
Returns true if the date given is valid; otherwise returns false.
Examples
Example #1 checkdate() example
<?php
var_dump(checkdate(12, 31, 2000));
var_dump(checkdate(2, 29, 2001));
?>The above example will output:
bool(true) bool(false)
See Also
- mktime() - Get Unix timestamp for a date
- strtotime() - Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
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