Level 4
Which format of date do you use?
You can use this method:
if (Carbon::createFromFormat('YOUR DATE FORMAT', $stringVariable) !== false) {
// valid date
}
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Jul 28, 2015
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Level 21
How To Check is a string is a valid date
How do I check if a string is a valid date using Carbon?
Level 17
It throws exception
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Level 52
Maybe try instanciate it and check return value.
Level 21
Thanks for your answers. I have opted for strtotime($datestring) which returns a boolean. It is short and working.
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Level 4
@richard be careful, because strtotime will return true if someone will send: "now", "next Thursday", "last Monday"... You should correntry handle these cases.
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Level 21
Ok. Thanks
Level 50
Tried this in tinker
>>> strtotime('2018-02-31')
=> 1520024400
That sucks :(
Level 50
bool checkdate ( int $month , int $day , int $year ) works
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Level 50
Came here looking for an answer, found my 4 years old answer 🤔
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Level 27
Throw an exception instead of a condition. Carbon will throws one if the string is not a valid date:
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Carbon\Exceptions\InvalidFormatException;
try {
Carbon::parse($timeString);
} catch (InvalidFormatException $e) {
echo 'Failed to parse time string';
}
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Level 7
I find this is a useful function:
/**
* Check if supplied datetime string is a valid date
*/
public static function isValidDate(string $dateString, string $format = 'Y-m-d'): bool
{
$dateTime = CarbonImmutable::createFromFormat($format, $dateString);
return $dateTime && $dateTime->format($format) === $dateString;
}
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