<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >checkdate</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Date and Time functions" HREF="ref.datetime.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Date and Time functions" HREF="ref.datetime.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="date" HREF="function.date.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ref.datetime.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.date.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.checkdate" ></A >checkdate</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN16417" ></A ><P > (PHP 3, PHP 4 )</P >checkdate -- Validate a gregorian date</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN16420" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >bool <B CLASS="methodname" >checkdate</B > ( int month, int day, int year)<BR ></BR ><P > Returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >TRUE</B ></TT > if the date given is valid; otherwise returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. Checks the validity of the date formed by the arguments. A date is considered valid if: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > year is between 1 and 32767 inclusive </P ></LI ><LI ><P > month is between 1 and 12 inclusive </P ></LI ><LI ><P > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >Day</I ></TT > is within the allowed number of days for the given <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >month</I ></TT >. Leap <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >year</I ></TT >s are taken into consideration. </P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.mktime.html" ><B CLASS="function" >mktime()</B ></A > and <A HREF="function.strtotime.html" ><B CLASS="function" >strtotime()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.datetime.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.date.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Date and Time functions</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.datetime.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >date</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >