Date Validator

The purpose of this class is to validate a date against a defined format of DD/MM/YYY

Usage

Include the files result.php and date-validator.php in where required e.g. index.php however you choose.

One of the simplest ways being:

require_once 'path/to/result.php';
require_once 'path/to/date-validator.php';

To check a date e.g. 29/02/2016 run:

$result = DateValidator::validateHistoricalDate('29/02/2016');

if ($result->isValid()) {

    // Valid date and format
    // This is what would actually run base on the example date

} else {
    
    // Invalid date or format
    
}

If you wish to find out in more detail what is wrong with a given date run the following instead:

DateValidator::validateHistoricalDate($dateString, true);

You will then be have a more specific error message when calling $result->getMessage()

Example

View the file example/getting-started.php or example/form.php

Try It

Enter a date in the form provided here and see if it is valid.