I'd return an error. You can use this function to make sure they entered a valid date: http://us.php.net/checkdate Provide a template like: (Month/Day/Year) or for EU (Day/Month/Year) If it's not valid, return an error and let them fix it. Chances are, if they entered more characters than a date, the date you parse might not be the one that they wanted. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Frank Stanovcak wrote: > Is it possible to use the php filter function to sanitize a regular > expression such as to return just the date part of a string that may be > passed by an nonobservant user? > > "#\d\d/\d\d/\d\d\d\d#" > > input would be something like > as02/05/2008df > > I want to use the filter to give me just the date should some oaf not leave > the date field as just digits. > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
