Help please, am trying to validate a form date input not empty and should not be greater that today’s date. this is what I did so far. am getting 000-00-00 inserted in MySQL db. what am I doing wrong? here is what in the form input
JavaScript
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<div class="form-group">
<label>Join Date</label>
<input type="date" name="joindate" class="form-control <?php echo (!empty($joindate_err)) ? 'is-invalid' : ''; ?> " value="<?php echo $joindate ?>">
<span class="invalid-feedback"><?php echo $joindate_err; ?></span>
</div>
the php tag above has this validations
JavaScript
//date validation
$input_joindate = trim($_POST["joindate"]);
if (empty($input_joindate)) {
$joindate_err = "Select join date";
}
if (!empty($input_joindate)) {
$input_joindate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($input_joindate));
$today = strtotime("now");
if (($input_joindate) > $today)
$joindate_err = "Date should not be in the future";
} else {
$joindate = $input_joindate;
}
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Answer
JavaScript
<?php
$today = date("Y-m-d");
$joindate = $_POST["joindate"];
if (empty($joindate) || !isset($joindate)) {
$joindate_err = "Select join date";
} elseif (strtotime($today) < strtotime($joindate)) {
$joindate_err = "Date should not be in the future";
}