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Damiano Barbati
Damiano Barbati

Reputation: 3496

Regex for date not working in php

This regex working in javascript doesn't work in php once the delimiters are added, throwing out a nice error:

$regex = '/(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(0?[1-9]|1[012])/((19|20)\\d\\d)/';

This one neither, it even gives a compilation error!

$regex = '/^(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[\/\.- ](0?[1-9]|1[0-2])[\/\.- ](19|20)\d{2}$/';

Which regex do u use to validate your date in gg/mm/aaaa format?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 268

Answers (3)

bw_üezi
bw_üezi

Reputation: 4564

try this: (escaping / in regexp as \/. I also changed order of the digit match.)

$regex = "/^(3[01]|[12][0-9]|0?[1-9])\/(1[012]|0?[1-9])\/((19|20)\d{2})$/";

For your second regex where you used [\/\.- ] this is wrong because the [\.- ] means 'from . to ' to fix this - should be the very first or the last character between [].

Upvotes: 2

Matthew
Matthew

Reputation: 48284

If this is for validating, why not something like this?:

$date = date_parse_from_format('d/m/Y', '08/08/2000');

if ($date['warning_count'] || $date['error_count']) {
   // invalid date
}

It's obviously not a regular expression, but it seems simpler to manage.

I'm not sure what triggers warnings and what triggers errors, but a few simple tests should satisfy any curiosities.

Upvotes: 1

Gabe
Gabe

Reputation: 86718

I think your problem is that you are attempting to escape the wrong slashes inside your string, which just makes it think you want to match backslashes but then it gets confused by the slashes inside your regex. Try this:

"/(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\/(0?[1-9]|1[012])\/((19|20)\d\d)/"

Upvotes: 0

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