CGI::Untaint::date.3pm

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Version: 2005-09-26 (fedora - 01/12/10)

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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:
  bug-CGI-Untaint-date@rt.cpan.org 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.