NAME
CGI::Untaint::date - validate a date
SYNOPSIS
use CGI::Untaint;
my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars);
my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date');DESCRIPTION
This Input Handler verifies that it is dealing with a reasonable date. Reasonably means anything that Date::Manip thinks is sensible, so you could use any of (for example): "December 12, 2001" "12th December, 2001" "2001-12-12" "next Tuesday" "third Wednesday in March"
Date::Manip for much more information on what date formats are acceptable.
The resulting date will be a Date::Simple object. Date::Simple for more information on this.
NOTE
Ambiguous dates of the format 08/09/2001 will be treated as UK style (i.e. 9th August, rather than 8th September).
WARNING
Date::Manip does not play nicely with taint mode. In order to work around this we locally clobber Date::Manip's 'timezone' code. As we're only interested in dates rather than times, this shouldn't be much of an issue. If it is, then please let me know!
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Tony Bowden, <kasei@tmtm.com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.