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mcal_date_valid

Name

mcal_date_valid — Returns TRUE if the date is a valid date

Synopsis

bool mcal_date_valid(year, month, day); int year: The year of the date to be checked int month: The month of the date to be checked int day: The day of the date to be checked

Returns

TRUE if the date is valid, FALSE if it is not

Description

mcal_date_valid() lets you check to make sure that a date actually exists in a given year, such as February 29th. This can be important as many of PHP's date functions will just wrap around if you pass them dates that are invalid: February 29th, on a year that isn't a leap year, will turn into March 1st.

Version

PHP 3 since 3.0.13, PHP 4 since 4.0b4

Example

Example 699. Checking if a date exists

$year = 2001;
$month = MCAL_FEBRUARY;
$day = 29;

if (mcal_date_valid($year, $month, $day)) {
    echo "This date occurs in " . $year;
} else {
    echo "The date is invalid";
}

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