Such is the way with programming.
Here's my take on it. Pull all your values into one long string:
$date_string = "{$_POST["week_day"]}, {$_POST["month"]} {$_POST["day"]}, {$_POST["year"]}";
Now, you have a string in the format "Saturday, March 20, 2004".
Now, use strtotime() to figure out whether it's a valid date:
if (($timestamp = strtotime($date_string)) === -1) {
// Not a valid date; do some error reporting here
} else {
// It is a valid date, $timestamp is now a valid Unix
// timestamp of $date_string; use it like below:
echo date("m/d/Y", $timestamp);
}See also http://us4.php.net/strtotime
Chris Bruce wrote:
Hello all,
I was going to build a function to check whether a selected date exists, but thought that I would see if anyone has done this type of thing already which would indeed save me some time.
I have a form where the users select the day of the week, month, date and year from 4 pulldowns. (Saturday, March 20, 2004). I need to have a function that will check to see if that is indeed a real date.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks a bunch :)
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