Validate a Gregorian date (original) (raw)

checkdate

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

checkdate — Validate a Gregorian date

Description

checkdate ( int $month , int $day , int $year ) : bool

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. Leap years 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:

See Also

• mktime() - Get Unix timestamp for a date
• strtotime() - Parse about any English textual datetime description into a Unix timestamp