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PHP CRUD Operations with PHP Creating Records Validating User Data

Posted by lukej
lukej
34,222 Points

PHP Validate Date Code Challenge: Problem

Does anybody know what is wrong with my code? It works fine locally...

index.php 
<?php

function valid_sql_date($date) {
    //add code here
  $datearray = explode('-', $date);

  if (count($datearray) != 3
            || strlen($datearray[0]) != 4
            || strlen($datearray[1]) != 2
            || strlen($datearray[2]) != 2
            || !checkdate($datearray[2], $datearray[1], $datearray[0])) {
    return false;
  } else {
    return true;
  }

}

2 Answers

Liam Clarke
Liam Clarke
19,938 Points

I'm not sure why it's failing because you are correct, I'm guessing its to do with spacing or something in the Treehouse editor.

The code I wrote is the exact same as yours and it works

<?php

function valid_sql_date($date) {
  //1. Split the date into its 3 parts using explode(), with the dash (-) character.
  $datearray = explode('-', $date);

  //2. Check that each part is the proper number of digits.
  //3. Check that the entered value is actually a valid date.
  if ( count($datearray) != 3 
      || strlen($datearray[0]) != 4 
      || strlen($datearray[1]) != 2 
      || strlen($datearray[2]) != 2 
      || !checkdate($datearray[1], $datearray[2], $datearray[0]) ) {
    return false;
  } else { 
    return true;
  }
}
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,970 Points
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,970 Points

The code above is not the same.

lukej has:

!checkdate($datearray[2], $datearray[1], $datearray[0])

and Liam has:

!checkdate($datearray[1], $datearray[2], $datearray[0])