PHP - Check If Date Has Passed

What is the best way to check for a Date in a Form?

I see there is a CheckDate() function, but how does that know what format the Date is in?

Should I use a Regular Expression?

My Form Field is just a Text Box...

Thanks,


Debbie

check date is in format of Y-m-d

I am trying to check if a credit card has expired.

My criterion is whether or not the date submitted is prior to this month if the year matches 2011.

Code: [Select]
// Check for Expired Card.
if (($expYear = date('Y')) && ($expMonth < date('M'))){
$errors['expDate'] = 'Expiration Date cannot be in the past.';
}

Why is this not working?

I chose March 2011 and it fails.

In fact, it fails for any date?!   



Debbie

This topic has been moved to Ajax Help.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=313543.0

I have two text fields in a form. Both accepts dates. I'd like to check whether the second date provided is exactly one year in the future from the first provided date. I can easily do this in PHP but since I need to do the check once the user leaves the second field, I have to resort to JavaScript, using onblur or something.   There are two issues I have. 1. Make sure that the strings provided are indeed dates (I would use strtodate() in PHP for this) 2. Regardless of month provided, making sure that the second date is exactly a year in the future of the already provided year   I've only captured the values and passed them to Date(). However, it can only handle european style, and if I enter 1981-06-16, the value returned is Jun 15 1981 17:00:00 which is obviously wrong.   Here is the simple broken code I have

var text1 = document.getElementById("text1");
var start_date = new Date(text1.value);
    
 var text2 = document.getElementById("text2");
 var end_date = new Date(text2.value);
    
 alert(start_date);

I need some guidance.

Hello guys, i have a problem that i am trying to solve myself for the entire past week. I am not a php programmer and i wish you can help me.
There is a russian project called Crot Anti-Plagiarism, it is a open source moodle plugin. I started to use it and it is a really nice feature. The problem is that there are quite few people that are developing it and new features are coming once a year...
I see a big "hole" in this project (at least for me) : The plugin checks for plagiarism in the file that you submit only once, if a student resubmits the file it doesn't see that and you need to start the plugin's test again for all the files which is time consuming if you have a lot of submitted files to check.
I would like to add a function that will check if a file changed his modified date , if yes - mark for checking, if no - skip the checking.
I already added a similar function that checks if the name has changed, but it seems harder to check it by uploaded time(modified time).
Things i have already done:
I added a new column "assignment_submissions_timemodified" in database.
I added a new function that records the "time modified" of the file in the database.
But i can't add and i cannot make the comparison between the date of the first time the file submitted versus the date of the second time the same file was resubmitted.
Alright no more bullsh**t here is the code: (there are 3 comments that shows what i've changed, starting with  //my job...)
Thanks a lot!
Code: [Select]
$apath= $CFG->dataroot."/$assignment->course/moddata/assignment/$asubmission->assignment/$asubmission->userid";
        $timemodified= filemtime($apath);    //my job... it checks the file's modified time.
$files = scandir($apath, 1);
if (! $unprocessedsubm = get_record("crot_submissions", "submissionid", $asubmission->id, "crot_submission_file_name", $files[0], "assignment_submissions_timemodified", $timemodified))  //my job...now i guess here is the problem ( "assignment_submissions_timemodified", $timemodified)
{
        echo "$timemodified";
        echo "$unprocessedsubm";
print_r($unprocessedsubm);
echo "\nsubmission $asubmission->id was not processed yet. start processing now ... \n" ;
$atime = microtime();
$atime = explode(" ",$atime);
$atime = $atime[1] + $atime[0];
$astarttime = $atime;
if(!count($files))break;
//TODO we should verify if filename changed
//TODO add loop on the documents folder as well as loop for unzipping
$apath = $apath."/$files[0]";
// call tokenizer to get plain text and store it in crot_submissions
$atext = tokenizer ($apath);
// update the crot_submissions table
// delete if exists
delete_records("crot_submissions", "submissionid", $asubmission->id);
// insert the new record
$record->submissionid=$asubmission->id;
$record->updated = time();
$record->crot_submission_file_name = $files[0];                                   
$record->assignment_submissions_timemodified = $timemodified;        //this is my job.... it is recording the date as it has to.
$submid = insert_record("crot_submissions", $record);
// insert into documents
$docrecord->crot_submission_id = $submid;
Also i have attached the whole file crot_crone.php.

Hey,

I'm using a script which allows you to click on a calendar to select the date to submit to the database.

The date is submitted like this: 2014-02-08

Is there a really simple way to prevent rows showing if the date is in the past?

Something like this:
if($currentdate < 2014-02-08 || $currentdate == 2014-02-08) {

}

Thanks very much,
Jack

Hello! I want to be able to make a code that tells me how many saturdays have passed till today. I've tried a couple of things but nothing. Any help?! Thanks!

Good day freaks.  I am pulling my hair out trying to figure this out.  I am trying to pass patterns for preg_replace through $_GET and then apply them.  The object is to highlight certain words in a chunk of text. 

Say I want to highlight bounded cases of 'foo' in the text.  So here's what I'm doing: Code: [Select]
$string = urldecode($_GET['highlight1']);       //  $string contains \\bfoo\\b
$search = preg_replace('/\\\\b/','b',$string);   // $search contains \bfoo\b  as I want it to
$replace = preg_replace('/\\\\b/','',$string);    // $replace contains \foo\  >:-(
$pattern = '/'.$search.'/i';
$text = preg_replace($pattern,'<span style="background-color:yellow;">'.$replace.'</span>',$text);

The problem is that no matter what I try for the pattern for $replace, it winds up with backslashes around foo.  How do I get rid of these?

(I should say that I discovered the pattern/replace for the $search string by experimentation and I don't understand why the pattern doesn't pick off all the backslashes in that case--but at least it does what I want).

TIA

Steve

Hi

I use Dreamweaver to do a lot of my work on a php/mysql database. I have two tables - applications and contacts and they are linked by the id appid. When I view a page with all of the application and contact details the url contains the appid as a number at the end (eg .../Summary.php?appid=639)
When I want to edit one of the contacts I go to the edit page but this is identified by a contact id so that url looks like:
../EditContact.php?contactid=32
When I update the contact's details I would like to return to the summary page but can't as the url gets muddled between the two different ids so I end up at a page with no info on it.

How can I get round this?

I'm sorry my explanation isn't very clear but any help is much appreciated.

I am trying to pass a php variable to javascript but it's not working. This is the "sketch" of my code.

<?php
$url="asset/go/";
?>

 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Page Title</title>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

    </head>
    <body>
        <script>
            var user="mayor";
            var url ='<?php echo json_encode($url); ?>';
       if(user=="mayor"){
           alert(url);
       }
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

As it is now, it comes with the output below:

<?php echo json_encode($url); ?>

If I remove the quotation around the php in d jQuery, it throws an error in syntax.

Also both codes are located in the same file named test.php

Thanks in advance.

Edited April 18 by Abel1416

In my main script I set $errorArray with values when required survey questions go unanswered.

The ne code that checks for missing required values is working perfectly, and right before I pass $errorArray to a function which rebuilds the survey questions - this time with the error messages - I do a var_dump($errorArray) and that array has errors in it as expected.

But while my function that re-builds the survey questions gets called and does indeed re-build the survey questions, the $errorArray isn't getting pased for some strange reason?

(I'm not sure if i have ever passed an array to a function before.)

In my function I have...

	function generateSurveyItem($dbc, $questionNo, $questionID, $surveyResponseArray=NULL, $errorArray=NULL){
	 
	}
	

 

When I var_dump($errorArray) at the top of the function, and submit a blank form, I end up with a blank page and a file path to my PHP script ending with...

	/public_html/utilities/function.php:3010:null
	

 

Questions:

1.) What is happening?

 

2.) I thought =NULL in the parameter list just meant that the argument is "optional"?

 

3.) I am able to successfully pass $surveyResponseArray to this function, so what is up with $errorArray?

 

P.S.  When I run things, and submit an empty form - thus no "required" fields get completed - the survey gets re-displays, and any values chosen are "sticky", but my error messages should also be displayed to let the user know what is mising, and that is the part that isn't working?

This has to be something silly stupid to fix...

 

Edited February 16 by SaranacLake

Hi,

I want to update a row when 30sec are passed on a page. If not nothing happens(not updating row).

Example:
You go to example.php>> 30sec pass, update row>> 30sec not over, no update.

it does not necessarily have to be second it can be minutes or hours.
Who can help me?

Hope its clear enough, Thanks.

 

Hi All,

I've been trying to access xml data from an API feed, but it needs a Variable to be passed to an include file without a form. the include is at the header of the page.

in the code below, i'm trying to retrieve the variable $project_add from the $xml_2 feed. $proj_add_ID comes from another feed and is being passed ok. 

foreach ($projects_1 as $proj_1) {

                        $job_no =$proj_1['job_no'];
                        $job_name =$proj_1['job_name'];
                        $job_status =$proj_1['job_status'];
                        $job_staff =$proj_1['job_staff'];
                        $job_due =$proj_1['job_due'];
                        $clr_1 = $colors_1[$job_status];
                        
                        if ($err_2) {
                        echo "cURL Error #:" . $err_2;
                         } else {
                        $_POST['job_id']= $job_no;
                        $xml_2=simplexml_load_string($response_2) or die("Error: Cannot create object");
                        $proj_add = $xml_2->xpath("CustomFields/CustomField[ID ='$proj_add_ID']");                         
                            foreach($proj_add as $item_2) {
                            $project_add = "$item_2->Text";
                        }            
                        echo "<div class='row no-gutters'>";
                        echo "<div class='col-sm bg-white border rounded'><a href='managejob.php?job_id=$job_no' class='text-left ml-1'><strong>$job_no</strong></a></div>";
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1'>$job_name</p></div>";                         
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1'></p>$project_add</div>";                        
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'>" . state_dropdown_1($job_no, $job_status, $clr_1) . "</div>";                        
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1'>$job_staff</p></div>"; 
                        echo "<div class='col-sm-2 bg-white border rounded'><form action='CALL_API_PUTTaskDate.php' method='POST'>"
                                . "<input type='hidden' name='task_ID' value ='". $jdata['task_ID'] ."'>"
                                . "<input type='hidden' name='est_min' value ='". $jdata['est_min'] ."'>"
                                . "<input class ='form-control bg-white text-dark font-weight-bold' type='date' name='start_date' value='" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime( $jdata['display_date_1'] )) . "' onchange='this.form.submit()'>"
                                . "</form></div>";
                        echo "<div class='col-sm bg-white border rounded'><p class='text-left ml-1 mt-1'><strong>" . date('d/m/Y', strtotime( $jdata['display_date'])) . "</strong></p></div></div>";
                        
                       }

The include file is like this

/ collect Custom Felds
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
    // collect value of status input field
    $job_no = $_REQUEST['job_id'];
      } 

if (isset($_POST['job_id'])) {
$job_no = $_POST['job_id'];
}

if (isset($_GET['job_id'])) {
$job_no = $_GET['job_id'];
}

$curl_2 = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl_2, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.xxx.com/job.api/get/$job_no/customfield?apiKey=xxx&accountKey=xxx",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Accept: */*",
    "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate",
    "Cache-Control: no-cache",
    "Connection: keep-alive",
    "Host: api.xxx.com",
    "Postman-Token: xxx",
    "User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.17.1",
    "cache-control: no-cache"
  ),
));

$response_2 = curl_exec($curl_2);
$err_2 = curl_error($curl_2);

curl_close($curl_2);

The problem is the variable $job_no isn't getting passed to CURLOPT_URL so it's not retrieving the data required. i need to be able to retrieve this data without submitting a form as it's in a foreach loop and the Id is specific to each iteration. is there a way to do this? I have been able to achieve this by putting the include within the div tags that it will be displayed but it just slows down everything too much and hangs. 

Any help will be much appreciated. 

Kind regards,

Michael Bennington.

Hi

I am trying to get all variables passed in a url string and wondered how would i do it?
I dont know what they are yet and i need to set key as value.
Any help?