php.js : checkdate() function

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checkdate() function

The checkdate() is used to validate a date in the Gregorian calendar. Return true for a valid date, otherwise false.

Note : The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named.

Version

1103.1210

Syntax:

checkdate(month, day, year)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Required / Optional	Type
month	The month is from 1 to 12.	Required	Integer
day	Number of days of a month. Leap years are taken into consideration.	Required	Integer
year	The range of the year : From 1 to 32767.	Required	Integer

Example of php checkdate() function.

In the following web document we check various date format compatible with the gregorian date. If the date matchs it returns true otherwise false.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>php.js : checkdate() function example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../phpjs/date/datetime.min.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: green">php.js : checkdate() function example</h1>
<h3>Various date format compatible with Gregorian date</h3>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
document.write('checkdate(12, 12, 1)'+"<br />");
document.write(checkdate(12, 12, 1)+"<br />");
document.write('checkdate(23, 12, 32767)'+'<br />');
document.write(checkdate(23, 12, 32767)+'<br />');
document.write('checkdate(11, 12, 32768)'+'<br />');
document.write(checkdate(11, 12, 327687)+'<br />');
document.write('checkdate(20, 12, 1)'+'<br />');
document.write(checkdate(20, 12, 1)+'<br />');
document.write('checkdate(18, 29, 2000)'+'<br />');
document.write(checkdate(18, 29, 2000)+'<br />');
document.write('checkdate(7, 29, 2001)'+'<br />');
document.write(checkdate(7, 29, 2001)+'<br />');
document.write('checkdate(31, 12, 2050)'+'<br />');
document.write(checkdate(31, 12, 2050)+'<br />');
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output of the function:

checkdate(12, 12, 1)
true
checkdate(23, 12, 32767)
false
checkdate(11, 12, 32768)
false
checkdate(20, 12, 1)
false
checkdate(18, 29, 2000)
false
checkdate(7, 29, 2001)
true
checkdate(31, 12, 2050)
false

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