I force the user to us a date selector. Use a few different methods across many applications. The latest one I have been using this due to the ability to do times with it.
http://www.zapatec.com/website/main/products/prod1/ Then I just rely on IsDate in the back end, they'd have to be rather adventurous to bypass the selector and I am willing to take the risk since it has not bitten me in 10+ years now. On Jan 23, 2008 4:30 PM, Terry Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't believe that I have not run up against this before with > isDate()... > I dynamically generate a form where I don't know the data type until run > time. > My only requirement is to format any dates. > > I was doing a simple <cfif isDate(myDate)> then formatting it, until I > realized that this string (09-262) was formatting as a date. It happens to > be a cubicle number > > I know that isDate will pretty much return TRUE on any darned thing. > Actually, most any date function will execute without failure on the above > value. > > So the question is... > How are you all validating dates reliably? I've checked cflib.org for > something with no luck. Google doesn't return much. I'm adding a year range > check to my code for now, which works, but doesn't seem too elegant. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297266 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
