Hello everybody how all are fine. I have a problem in validating the Date Entered by the user in the TEXT FIELD, how can I check that user entered a valid date or not.
Please help me in this regard.
Bye

Zaeem Sherazi

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Zaeem Sherazi

I would use three pull downs one for month, one for day, and one for year. I would use javascript to change the number of days in the pulldown based on which month and year was chosen.

Thanx for ur reply. I am also using three drop downs (one for day,other for Month,nd the last one for year) and I concatenate three drop down. Now it is time for validation. Now how you can validate this concatenated date?
I am waiting for ur mail.

Zaeem Sherazi

after concatinating the dates seperated by / or other valid seperator you can use isDate()

if isDate(thisDate) then

end iif

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after concatinating the dates seperated by / or other valid seperator you can use isDate()

if isDate(thisDate) then
'Date is valid code
else
'date is not valid code
end if

However by using the dropdowns as vivalet suggested you should not be able to get an invalid date, just add a little js code to ensure that a month with 30 days does not allow 31 to be selected from the day list.


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They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
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u Can use the SimpleDateFormat for that, to validate the format of the date and if it was a valid date too. I did it and if you want my code just tell me ^_^

Cuty

Cuty

SimpleDateFormat, is that vbscript?

zaeem

I personaly use a pop up calendar:
1..User clicks on a calendar image
2..Selects a date from a 'proper' calendar
3..Onclick it inserts the date into a text area and closes the calendar window.

This way you can not possibly get an invalid date. I also place onFocus and onClick events to make it impossible for the user to type dates manualy. If you use the three drop downs you have to include code to account for:

Edited : Sorry, I just realized Rod had mentioned this

Lets say I pick September. We all know there are 30 days in this month, are you going to detect the month chosen and reload the page to remove 31 off the day selections?

Wind is your friend
Matt

aha You can Use that .. But I am using JAVA and did that woith SimpleFormat and it works ^_^

Cuty