PHP code to check year?

Question

Hi,

Can anyone tell me the php code to check that a variable submitted via a html form is a year between 1900 and the current year (taken from a time variable if poss).

To give you an idea of what I mean, here is the equivalent code in Ruby:

current = Time.new

if year < 1900 or jahr > current.year

$error += "You didn't enter a sensible year"

end

Thanx in advance

Answer 1

To get the current year, use PHP&#039;s date function:

http://php.net/date

$current_year = date(&#039;Y&#039;);

The code would be similar to Ruby.

if($year &lt; 1900 OR $year &gt; $current_year)

{

//Note the period before the equal sign. That&#039;s the

//concatenation operator in PHP.

$error .= &quot;You didn&#039;t enter a sensible year.&quot;

}

Answer 2

To get the current year you use the date(&quot;Y&quot;) command.