Re: checking user input of MM-DD-YYYY

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Nathan Nobbe wrote:

> i think this ties into the thread tedd started a week or so ago
> about the best approach for collecting user data.
> it would be much easier to validate if there were 3 text input fields
> to collect the data, rather than 1, free-form field.

I would stick to one date field with a simple javascript validation
(using a regex) at entry time followed by a semantic check that the
given day exists in the given month/year. 
Of course, if you'd rather not use javascript, you could validate the
whole thing after POST.


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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