There is no such a thing as a date datatype in PHP. Dates are stored as an
integer representing seconds since a base time (1/1/1970) and they cannot be
distinguished from other integers. In PHP 5.1 they added a DateTime class
which is a good thing for the future, to solve issues like yours, but for
the time being, a 'timestamp' as returned by, for example' mktime, is a
plain integer.
Satyam
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From: "Ken Tozier" <kentozier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:55 PM
Subject: No is_date() function?
Hi
I wrote a serialization function to turn arbitrary PHP variables into
Macintosh plist compatible XML but see that there is no "is_date" tester
as there is for bool, object, array etc. Is there a relatively simple
(and robust) way to detect if a variable is a date? For example:
$person = array('name'=>'bob', 'sex'=>'male', 'date_of_birth'=>
$someDateHere);
Thanks for any help
Ken
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