thanks in advance...
date from textbox
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date from textbox
i know hot to format date from database...but i need to know this one, if i have a textbox, i want to input,for example, the enddate of a certain task (11-11-2005)...my idea is if i type it and click submit button, the text i typed will automatically generate the date that i typed...can somebody help me with this?
thanks in advance...
thanks in advance...
- harrisonad
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my sample code below....
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{
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}
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{
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}
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}
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{
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}
}
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{
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</form>
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if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
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{
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}
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{
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if (isset($_POST['submit']))
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if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
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</form>
- harrisonad
- Forum Contributor
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Using strtotime() function is really neat but it has some limitations
My suggestion is to create your own function to parse the content of input so that any format will do. it must be user-friendly, like 'July 7,2005'.
But why use textbox to input date if you can just create a 'calendar' using javascript, or make 3 selectboxes for each part of the date(month,day,year), so that the user will never go wrong in inputting date.
What if the user did not followed the right format? then the date created will not be equivalent to what the user expected.PHP Manual wrote:The function expects to be given a string containing a US English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp
My suggestion is to create your own function to parse the content of input so that any format will do. it must be user-friendly, like 'July 7,2005'.
But why use textbox to input date if you can just create a 'calendar' using javascript, or make 3 selectboxes for each part of the date(month,day,year), so that the user will never go wrong in inputting date.
Last edited by harrisonad on Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:29 am, edited 3 times in total.
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