Question

I was trying to define a function to validate date entered in dd/mm/yyyy format.
I am trying to use the inbuilt function checkdate() and explode() to supply values to checkdate()
This is the code:

    <?php
function validate_date($date){
$array = explode('/',$date,3);
checkdate($array[1],$array[0],$array[2]);
}
?>

I get an error:

Warning: checkdate() expects exactly 3 parameters, 1 given in C:\xampp\htdocs\officespace\mdm\Create_Individual.php on line 57

Please can someone indicate where exactly I’m going wrong.

Thanks.

Answer 1

bool checkdate ( int $month , int $day , int $year )

http://codepad.org/hKZP726r

<?php
function validate_date($date){
    $array = explode('/',$date,3);
    echo "\$array = ". var_export($array, true) . "\n";
    $ret = checkdate($array[1],$array[0],$array[2]);
    echo "\$ret = " . var_export($ret, true) . "\n";
    return $ret;
}

validate_date('24/11/2011');  // dd/mm/yyyy

Output:

$array = array (
  0 => '24',
  1 => '11',
  2 => '2011',
)
$ret = true