Using filter_var() to verify date?

Question

I\'m obviously not using filter_var() correctly. I need to check that the user has entered a valid date, in the form \"dd/mm/yyyy\".

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Answer 1

A simple and convenient way to verify the date in PHP is a strtotime function. You can validate the date with only one line:

strtotime("bad 01/02/2012 bad"); //false
strtotime("01/02/2012"); //1325455200 unix timestamp

Answer 2

Try setting the start and end for your regex like this:

$myregex = "/^\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4}$/";