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
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!
SEE ALSO
Date::Simple. Date::Manip.
AUTHOR
Tony Bowden
BUGS and QUERIES
Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
[email protected]
COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 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.
