Re: checking user input of MM-DD-YYYY

[Adam Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Ballard wrote:
> Just curious why you won't take 1-15-2008. Once you validate it, you
> can always assign it to a variable as either a timestamp or a DateTime
> object and then format it however you want when you display it, send
> it to a database, or whatever you are doing with the date.
>
> FWIW, what you have above will also accept 42-75-2008.
>
> Andrew
>
>   
Because I'm inserting it into MySQL as a date conversion from American 
date to a MySQL date field. %m must be ##, %d must be ##, and %Y must be 
####. so if %m or %d is set to 1 - 9 and not 01 - 09 it will error.


$mysqli_insert_sql = "INSERT INTO contract (user_id, cwcv,
amount, responsibility, length_start, length_end, stage, title, lastmod, 
divdirdate)
VALUES ( '$user_id', '". $_POST["cwcv"]."', '".$_POST["amount"]."',
'".$_POST["responsibility"]."',
STR_TO_DATE('".$_POST["length_start"]."', '%m-%d-%Y'),
STR_TO_DATE('".$_POST["length_end"]."', '%m-%d-%Y'), '1',
'".$_POST["title"]."', now(), now())";

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