NAME

Data::FormValidator::Constraints::Dates - Validate Dates and Times

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
# In a Data::FormValidator Profile:
validator_packages => [qw(Data::FormValidator::Constraints::Dates)],
constraints => {
        date_and_time_field       => {
                constraint_method => 'date_and_time',
                params=>[\'MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss pp'], # 'pp' denotes AM|PM for 12 hour representation
        },
}
            
          

DESCRIPTION

date_and_time

Note: This is a new module is a new addition to Data::FormValidator and is should be considered "Beta".

This constraint creates a regular expression based on the format string passed in to validate your date against. It understands the following symbols:

            

              
              
Y       year  (numeric)
M       month (numeric)
D       day       (numeric)
h       hour
m   minute
s       second
p       AM|PM
            
          

Other parts of the string become part of the regular expression, so you can do perlish things like this to create mor complex expressions:

            

              
              
'MM?/DD?/YYYY|YYYY-MM?-DD?'
            
          

Internally Date::Calc is used to test the functions.

SEE ALSO

Data::FormValidator, DateTime::Format::Pg, DateTime::Format::MySQL, DateTime::Format::Mail

AUTHOR

Mark Stosberg, <mark@summersault.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003 by Mark Stosberg

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.