Date Validator

This validator can be used to ensure that a given value is a valid date.

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Supported Options

The Date validator supports the below option:

• format: determines the date format to use during the validation. It is an optional parameter and 'Y-m-d' is used by default.

Usage

There are two different ways in which all Sparta validators can be used. See below examples for more explanations:

Example #1

You can instantiate the validator directly and pass to it the data that you want to validate.

<?php
use Sparta\Validators\Date;

$validator = Date();

if(!$validator->isValid('2016-01-01')){ 
    //handle errors
}

If you would like to use another date format, then this can be configured either via the validator constructor method:

$validator = Date(['format' => 'm/d/Y']);

Or via the validator setter SetFormat method:

$validator->setFormat('m/d/Y');

Example #2

You can build your validation rules and pass it to the Validation object to handle as shown below:

<?php
use Sparta\Validation;

$rules = [
    'birthdate' => 'date',
];

//Assuming that your $data has an element with the key "birthdate"

$validation = new Validation($data, $rules);
if(!$validation->isValid()){
    //handle errors
}

In case of validation failure, error messages can be retrieved using the getErrors method.

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