Question

I have a date input that requires the user to enter the date in the following format: DD-MM-YYYY – It is then converted to YYYY-MM-DD

I want to perform a check to see whether they are entering the correct format. i.e. if anything else is entered other than DD-MM-YYYY then it should produce an error message

Im currently using the following

                    list($y, $m, $d) = explode('-', $date);

                    if(checkdate($m, $d, $y)){

                    }else{
                        die("The date was in the wrong format");
                    }

I have tried putting the code that follows this inside the if statement, aswell as not including the else at all – but it does not work. Any suggestions on what i can try? Thankyou

Answer 1

You are asking the user to enter DD-MM-YYYY, but your list() call expects the explode() order as YYYY-MM-DD.

Update your code to with:

list($d, $m, $y) = explode('-', $date);