Why do you care that they're entering that specific format, as long as
they're entering a valid date you can convert to that format?
-----Original Message-----
From: James Taavon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 6:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Date Validation
oh, i dont want to change the date format, i want to validate against
the "mm/dd/yyyy" format.
"Sicular, Alexander" wrote:
>
> that doesn't do much for you because you are checking date against itself
in
> a different format.
>
> this will check to make sure that the data passed is a valid date.
>
> <cfif isdate(form.due_date)>
> ....
> </cfif>
>
> then you can change it's format via dateformat()
>
> good luck,
>
> -alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Taavon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:39 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Date Validation
>
> I want to do check to see if users are entering the date properly in my
> form. Is this correct?
>
> <cfif #form.due_date# IS NOT #DateFormat(form.due_date, "mm/dd/yyyy")#>
> <XCRIPT LANGUAGE="XavaXcript" TYPE="text/XavaXcript">
> <!-- alert ('Your Date entry is
invalid.')location.href='XavaXcript:window.history.back(1)' //-->
> </XCRIPT>
> <cfabort>
> </cfif>
>
>
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