Best way to take date input from user?

[AlphaWolf]

Hi,

I'm using the form data type 'date', and trying to verify it. It seems a little too complicated to check that it's in the correct format (with "/" between day/month/year), unless I use regular expression, which I don't know much about and seems feels like there's an alternate solution or it's not necessary. Currently, the script accepts DD*MM*YYYY, where * is any character, since it just strips the 3rd and 6th character and checks the day/month/year using checkdate().

I'm not even sure if this is a problem. I am giving the user a "verify" page, where I could put it in the correct format (DD/MM/YYYY), but is that enough?

Feel like I'm missing something here, so any feedback would be great

[laffin]

I like them pop up javascript calendars myself.

regex for date matching isnt very hard

 

preg_match('@^\d{2}[/-]\d{2}[/-]\d{4}$@',$date);

 

[Andy-H]

Just use 3 input boxes

 

 

<form method="post">
Date (d/m/Y): <input size="2" maxlength="2" title="Day of month" name="day" > <input size="2" maxlength="2" title="Month of year" name="month" > <input size="4" maxlength="4" title="Year" name="Year" >
</form>

 

I also like to use jQuery mouse wheel to scroll through days/months/years and a pop-up calendar, I wrote an extension to do both but it's on my work computer

[Pikachu2000]

The 'best' approach, IMHO, is to use a jQuery datepicker, with <select> fields as the <noscript> backup, using the names of the months as the label part of the <option>s, then just use checkdate to validate the input.