Validation of a date which checks if the string passed is a valid date. Allowed formats
d-m-y 31-12-2014 separators can be a period, dash, forward slash, but not allow spacem-d-y 12-31-2014 separators can be a period, dash, forward slash, but not allow spacey-m-d 2014-12-31 separators can be a period, dash, forward slash, but not allow space| Parameters | |||
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string
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$value |
The date string being checked |
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string
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$format = 'y-m-d' |
The date format to be validated against. Default is y-m-d for 2014-12-31 |
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bool
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TRUE on success; FALSE on failure |