Re: No is_date() function?

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On Wed, July 25, 2007 8:55 am, Ken Tozier wrote:
> 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);

PHP has no 'date' type...

So what you are calling a date is one of these:
1) An integer representing Unix timestamp (is_int())
2) Some fancy OOP object (use OOP isa function)
3) A string that happens to look like a date to humans
   a) strtotime might work
   b) a preg_match might work better

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