komedit1
Reputation: 255
javascript date validation using date object
According to http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-98569.html, the date validation could be done using the javascript's date object.
I've a similar scenario, where I have individual year,month,date in seperate text boxes which get validated by regular expressions.Now I would like to leverage the JS's date object to check stuff like days in a month and leap year validation which are not done by RegExp validation. But the stuff discussed in the above link doesn't quite work for me. For example,
<script type="text/javascript">
var dy= new Date(2001,2,30);
alert(dy.getFullYear()+" "+dy.getMonth()+" "+dy.getDate());
</script>
returns the date as it is. Shouldn't dy.getMonth() return something like -1 to show that 30 days doesn't exist in the month of February?. If this isn't possible using Date object, please suggest some alternatives to validate the date.
Update: I just found another link(http://internotredici.com/article/checkdateinjavascript/) which says the same. PS:I am working on JS1.2 which is pretty old.
Upvotes: 3
Views: 6940
Answers (3)
Dinesh Lomte
Reputation: 609
This may help some one. Have written some methods which will get perform the date validations. There could be some better ways but I have come up with these. This help in validating the dates on locale based formats. NOTE: date format and date string as provided in the input fields go hand in hand.
<script type="text/javascript">
function validate() {
var format = 'yyyy-MM-dd';
if(isAfterCurrentDate(document.getElementById('start').value, format)) {
alert('Date is after the current date.');
} else {
alert('Date is not after the current date.');
}
if(isBeforeCurrentDate(document.getElementById('start').value, format)) {
alert('Date is before current date.');
} else {
alert('Date is not before current date.');
}
if(isCurrentDate(document.getElementById('start').value, format)) {
alert('Date is current date.');
} else {
alert('Date is not a current date.');
}
if (isBefore(document.getElementById('start').value, document.getElementById('end').value, format)) {
alert('Start/Effective Date cannot be greater than End/Expiration Date');
} else {
alert('Valid dates...');
}
if (isAfter(document.getElementById('start').value, document.getElementById('end').value, format)) {
alert('End/Expiration Date cannot be less than Start/Effective Date');
} else {
alert('Valid dates...');
}
if (isEquals(document.getElementById('start').value, document.getElementById('end').value, format)) {
alert('Dates are equals...');
} else {
alert('Dates are not equals...');
}
if (isDate(document.getElementById('start').value, format)) {
alert('Is valid date...');
} else {
alert('Is invalid date...');
}
}
/**
* This method gets the year index from the supplied format
*/
function getYearIndex(format) {
var tokens = splitDateFormat(format);
if (tokens[0] === 'YYYY'
|| tokens[0] === 'yyyy') {
return 0;
} else if (tokens[1]=== 'YYYY'
|| tokens[1] === 'yyyy') {
return 1;
} else if (tokens[2] === 'YYYY'
|| tokens[2] === 'yyyy') {
return 2;
}
// Returning the default value as -1
return -1;
}
/**
* This method returns the year string located at the supplied index
*/
function getYear(date, index) {
var tokens = splitDateFormat(date);
return tokens[index];
}
/**
* This method gets the month index from the supplied format
*/
function getMonthIndex(format) {
var tokens = splitDateFormat(format);
if (tokens[0] === 'MM'
|| tokens[0] === 'mm') {
return 0;
} else if (tokens[1] === 'MM'
|| tokens[1] === 'mm') {
return 1;
} else if (tokens[2] === 'MM'
|| tokens[2] === 'mm') {
return 2;
}
// Returning the default value as -1
return -1;
}
/**
* This method returns the month string located at the supplied index
*/
function getMonth(date, index) {
var tokens = splitDateFormat(date);
return tokens[index];
}
/**
* This method gets the date index from the supplied format
*/
function getDateIndex(format) {
var tokens = splitDateFormat(format);
if (tokens[0] === 'DD'
|| tokens[0] === 'dd') {
return 0;
} else if (tokens[1] === 'DD'
|| tokens[1] === 'dd') {
return 1;
} else if (tokens[2] === 'DD'
|| tokens[2] === 'dd') {
return 2;
}
// Returning the default value as -1
return -1;
}
/**
* This method returns the date string located at the supplied index
*/
function getDate(date, index) {
var tokens = splitDateFormat(date);
return tokens[index];
}
/**
* This method returns true if date1 is before date2 else return false
*/
function isBefore(date1, date2, format) {
// Validating if date1 date is greater than the date2 date
if (new Date(getYear(date1, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date1, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date1, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()
> new Date(getYear(date2, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date2, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date2, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* This method returns true if date1 is after date2 else return false
*/
function isAfter(date1, date2, format) {
// Validating if date2 date is less than the date1 date
if (new Date(getYear(date2, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date2, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date2, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()
< new Date(getYear(date1, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date1, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date1, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()
) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* This method returns true if date1 is equals to date2 else return false
*/
function isEquals(date1, date2, format) {
// Validating if date1 date is equals to the date2 date
if (new Date(getYear(date1, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date1, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date1, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()
=== new Date(getYear(date2, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date2, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date2, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* This method validates and returns true if the supplied date is
* equals to the current date.
*/
function isCurrentDate(date, format) {
// Validating if the supplied date is the current date
if (new Date(getYear(date, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()
=== new Date(new Date().getFullYear(),
new Date().getMonth(),
new Date().getDate()).getTime()) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* This method validates and returns true if the supplied date value
* is before the current date.
*/
function isBeforeCurrentDate(date, format) {
// Validating if the supplied date is before the current date
if (new Date(getYear(date, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()
< new Date(new Date().getFullYear(),
new Date().getMonth(),
new Date().getDate()).getTime()) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* This method validates and returns true if the supplied date value
* is after the current date.
*/
function isAfterCurrentDate(date, format) {
// Validating if the supplied date is before the current date
if (new Date(getYear(date, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date, getDateIndex(format))).getTime()
> new Date(new Date().getFullYear(),
new Date().getMonth(),
new Date().getDate()).getTime()) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
/**
* This method splits the supplied date OR format based
* on non alpha numeric characters in the supplied string.
*/
function splitDateFormat(dateFormat) {
// Spliting the supplied string based on non characters
return dateFormat.split(/\W/);
}
/*
* This method validates if the supplied value is a valid date.
*/
function isDate(date, format) {
// Validating if the supplied date string is valid and not a NaN (Not a Number)
if (!isNaN(new Date(getYear(date, getYearIndex(format)),
getMonth(date, getMonthIndex(format)) - 1,
getDate(date, getDateIndex(format))))) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
</script>
HTML date associated input fields
<input type="text" name="start" id="start" size="10" value="" />
<br/>
<input type="text" name="end" id="end" size="10" value="" />
<br/>
<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="javascript:validate();" />
Upvotes: 2
kennebec
Reputation: 104830
You can make the date from the day, month, year bits, and then check that the bits are correct.
function isvalid_mdy(s){
var day, A= s.split(/\D+/).map(function(itm,i){return parseInt(itm,10)});
A[0]-=1;
try{
day= new Date(A[2], A[0], A[1]);
if(day.getMonth()== A[0] && day.getDate()== A[1]) return day;
throw new Error('Bad Date ');
}
catch(er){
return er.message;
}
}
function isvalid_dmy(s){
var day, A= s.split(/\D+/).map(function(itm,i){return parseInt(itm,10)});
A[1]-=1;
try{
day= new Date(A[2], A[1], A[0]);
if(day.getMonth()== A[1] && day.getDate()== A[0]) return day;
throw new Error('Bad Date ');
}
catch(er){
return er.message;
}
}
Upvotes: 6
Felipe Cruz
Reputation: 940
In JS, monht starts by 0, so 0=Jan,1=Feb,2=Mar
30,1 (30 FEB) will be 2 Mar
You will have to test this by yourself..
This can help you - validate-date
Upvotes: 1
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