On Friday, May 20, 2011, Peter Lind wrote:
> Try:
> $date = new DateTime($date_string_to_validate);
> echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
Many thanks. Unfortunately, as I mentioned in my OP, the DateTime
class seems to be 'broken' for my purposes because it uses strtotime()
to convert input strings to date/time. Rather than fail when presented
with an invalid date, strtotime() returns the 'best fit' if possible.
This can be seen from:
$date = new DateTime('30 Feb 1999');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
which results in "1999-03-02" even though 30 Feb is an invalid date.
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Geoff
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