Date/Time Functionscheckdate
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
checkdate — Validate a Gregorian date
Description
bool checkdate
( int
$month
, int $day
, int $year
)Checks the validity of the date formed by the arguments. A date is considered valid if each parameter is properly defined.
Parameters
-
month -
The month is between 1 and 12 inclusive.
-
day -
The day is within the allowed number of days for the given
month. Leapyears are taken into consideration. -
year -
The year is between 1 and 32767 inclusive.
Return Values
Returns TRUE if the date given is valid; otherwise returns FALSE.
Examples
Example #1 checkdate() example
<?php
var_dump(checkdate(12, 31, 2000));
var_dump(checkdate(2, 29, 2001));
?>
The above example will output:
bool(true) bool(false)
See Also
- mktime() - Get Unix timestamp for a date
- strtotime() - Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp
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