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php.jsThis article is part of the 'Porting PHP to Javascript' Project, which aims to decrease the gap between developing for PHP & Javascript.

A lot of people are familiar with PHP's functions, and though Javascript functions are often quite similar, some functions may be missing or addressed differently. The Javascript implementations should be as compliant with the PHP versions as possible, a good indication is that the PHP function manual could also apply to the Javascript version.

Porting crucial PHP functions to Javascript can be fun & useful. Currently some PHP functions have been added, but readers are encouraged to contribute and improve functions by adding comments. Eventually the goal is to save all the functions in one php.js file and make it publicly available for your coding pleasure.

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This is a Javascript version of the PHP function: checkdate.

PHP checkdate

Description

checkdate - Validate a Gregorian date

bool checkdate( int month , int day , int year )

Checks the validity of the date formed by the arguments. A date is considered valid if each parameter is properly defined.

Parameters

  • month

    The month is between 1 and 12 inclusive.

  • day

    The day is within the allowed number of days for the given month . Leap year s are taken into consideration.

  • year

    The year is between 1 and 32767 inclusive.

Return Values

Returns TRUE if the date given is valid; otherwise returns FALSE.

See Also

Javascript checkdate

Source

This is the main source of the Javascript version of PHP's checkdate

function checkdate( month, day, year ) {
    // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
    // +   original by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // *     example 1: checkdate(12, 31, 2000);
    // *     returns 1: true
    // *     example 2: checkdate(2, 29, 2001);
    // *     returns 2: false
    // *     example 3: checkdate(03, 31, 2008);
    // *     returns 3: true
 
    var myDate = new Date();
    myDate.setFullYear( year, (month - 1), day );
 
    return ( (myDate.getMonth()+1) == month );
}

Examples

Currently there are 3 examples

Example 1

This is how you could call checkdate()
checkdate(12, 31, 2000);
And that would return
true

Example 2

This is how you could call checkdate()
checkdate(2, 29, 2001);
And that would return
false

Example 3

This is how you could call checkdate()
checkdate(03, 31, 2008);
And that would return
true

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Testing the functions

The number of functions is growing fast and so it becomes hard to maintain quality.

To defeat that danger of bad code, syntax errors, etc, I've added a new feature: php.js tester.

It is an automatically generated page that includes ALL functions in your browser, and then extracts specific testing information from each function's comments. This info is then used to run the function, and the return value is compared to a predefined one.

This way code is always checked on syntax errors, and if it doesn't function correctly anymore after an update, we should also be able to detect it more easily.

If you want, go check it out.


Credits

Respect & awards go to everybody who has contributed in some way so far:

medalmedalMichael White (link) for contributing to:
 array_count_values, get_included_files, include, include_once, require, require_once, md5, number_format, parse_str, printf, sha1, sprintf, str_pad, strnatcmp, http_build_query, floatval, is_object, print_r
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 shuffle, abs, setcookie, number_format, number_format, soundex, str_repeat, str_replace, str_rot13, ucwords, wordwrap, wordwrap
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 end, reset, file, file_get_contents, function_exists, include, include_once, http_build_query, is_array, is_object
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 array_change_key_case, array_count_values, array_diff_key, get_class, preg_quote, addslashes, count_chars, str_rot13, stripslashes
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 sizeof, round, echo, nl2br, str_replace, strchr, urldecode, urlencode, var_export
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 str_ireplace, str_split, strcasecmp, stripos, strnatcmp, substr
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 crc32, md5, sha1, utf8_decode, utf8_encode
 
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Your name here?

Contributing is as easy as adding a comment with better code, or code for a new function.
Any contribution leading to improvement will directly get your name & link here.


Coming Project features

Project features that we are currently working on:

  • Versioning. Individual functions are versioned, but the entire library should be versioned as well.
  • Light. A lightweight version of php.js should be made available with only common functions in it.

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#4. Kevin on 03 April 2008

Kevin@ Dominique: You're right it does work with ranges from 0-11. Confusingly enough, getMonth also works with ranges from 0-11, so that compensated somewhat for the behaviour. But a third bug was this:

return ( myDate.getMonth() != month );
instead of this
return ( myDate.getMonth() == month );
So that made testing unreliable. Thanks for persisting in this matter! The function is fixed now.

#3. Dominique on 03 April 2008

DominiqueHello Kevin, and thank you for your answer. Part of my comment was mistaken, but part of it still "sticks". In my test, I used

myDate.getYear()
instead of
myDate.getFullYear()
Which explains the strange value given for the year... But with respect to
myDate.setFullYear( 2008, 03, 31);
alert(myDate.getFullYear()+ " " + myDate.getMonth() + " " +myDate.getDate());
giving 2008 04 01 as an answer, I persist: I definitely get that result. Reading the Javascript specifications it is not surprising since it states that "setFullYear" takes a month parameter going from 0 to 11, so it considers month 03 to be april (which has 30 days) and hence the 31st of April to be actually the 1st of May (month 04)... So, if the code you post is the actual checkdate code, I do not understand how it could give the right answer... I am puzzled.

#2. Kevin on 02 April 2008

Kevin@ Dominique: Hi, I've added your example date and tried to reproduce it here: http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/pj_tester.php

But the checkdate examples all give the expected output here. Is this the same for you?

#1. Dominique on 31 March 2008

DominiqueIt seems to me, after trying and testing it, that the code for function checkdate( month, day, year ) does not work. There is one reason I have clearly analysed, and others still unclear to me. The analysed reason is that the .getMonth() member of the Date class, and the Date class itself, actually, number months from 0 to 11, and not 1 to 12. So any usual date is incorrectly checked. e.g.

var myDate = new Date();
    myDate.setFullYear( 2008, 03, 31);
    alert(myDate.getYear()+ " " + myDate.getMonth() + " " +myDate.getDate());
prints: 108 04 01 The second strange aspect of ".setFullYear()" is that it seems to count the years since 1900, giving 108 for 2008 and 82 for 1982... I'm puzzled, bu I did test...