Question

I need help validating an input’s value against the current date. Basically i need to “addMethod” for the jquery validate plug in that would require the CC Exp Date – format MM/YYYY to be a future date no more than 10 yrs into the future. I have been looking for 2 days and have yet to find a good solution! Please Help!

Answer 1

With help from Patrick, this works and will hopefully help someone else out as well, this was a pain in the ass for a not so great programmer.

$.validator.addMethod(
"Future",
function (value, element) {
    var today = new Date();
    var startDate = new Date(today.getFullYear(),today.getMonth(),1,0,0,0,0);
    var expDate = value;
    var separatorIndex = expDate.indexOf('/');
    expDate = expDate.substr( 0, separatorIndex ) + '/1' + expDate.substr( separatorIndex );
    return Date.parse(startDate) <= Date.parse(expDate);
},
"Must be a valid Expiration Date."
);

then in rules: {
  elementName: {
    Future: true
  }
},
messages: {

}