man CGI::Untaint::date (3): validate a date

SYNOPSIS

use CGI::Untaint;
my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars);
my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date');

DESCRIPTION

is_valid

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''

See 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.

date_format

By default ambiguous dates of the format 08/09/2001 will be treated as UK style (i.e. 8th September rather than 9th August)

If you want to change this, subclass it and override date_format()

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!

AUTHOR

Tony Bowden

BUGS and QUERIES

Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
[email protected]

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

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