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PHP CRUD Operations with PHP Creating Records Validating User Data

Rodney St Cloud
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Rodney St Cloud
PHP Development Techdegree Graduate 13,336 Points
Posted by Rodney St Cloud
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Rodney St Cloud
PHP Development Techdegree Graduate 13,336 Points

Cannot solve the last "CRUD Operations with PHP" Challenge Task

function valid_sql_date($date) { //add code here $date = $date; $dateArr = explode("-", $date); $corrDate = checkdate($dateArr[0],$dateArr[1],$dateArr[2]); if(!$corrDate || count($dateArr) != 3 || strlen($dateArr[0]) != 4 || strlen($dateArr[1]) != 2 || strlen($dateArr[2]) != 2){ return False; }else{ return True; }

}

index.php 
<?php
function valid_sql_date($date) {
    //add code here
  $date = $date;
  $dateArr = explode("-", $date);
  $corrDate = checkdate($dateArr[0],$dateArr[1],$dateArr[2]);
  if(!$corrDate || count($dateArr) != 3 || strlen($dateArr[0]) != 4 || strlen($dateArr[1]) != 2 || strlen($dateArr[2]) != 2){
    return False;
  }else{
   return True; 
  }

}

1 Answer

Adam Pearson
Adam Pearson
19,432 Points
Adam Pearson
Adam Pearson
19,432 Points

Your code works fine, you're just using the wrong argument order for checkdate(). It checks Month, Day, Year, so you need to change that line to 

$corrDate = checkdate($dateArr[1],$dateArr[2],$dateArr[0]);