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PHP

Mayur Pande
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Mayur Pande
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Posted by Mayur Pande
Mayur Pande
Courses Plus Student 11,711 Points

Sanitizing a datetime variable

Is it possible to sanitize a datetime variable in php. Similar to what Alena Holligan done in her suggest.php with emails and texts for post variables?

1 Answer

Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points

You could probably process it as a string (including sanitising as a string) and then see if it represents a valid datetime format before using it. If you push an invalid string into a datetime, in this example at least, it throws an exception.

try {
    $date = new DateTime('2ss000-01-01');
} catch (Exception $e) {
}

Or you could validate using regex. I'm sure there's probably some official advise somewhere on what you're supposed to do. I've seen a couple example of using regex to validate format or replace characters that aren't digits or a slash, but not whether the date is an actual date. There is a method called checkdate.

Mayur Pande
Mayur Pande
Courses Plus Student 11,711 Points
Mayur Pande
Mayur Pande
Courses Plus Student 11,711 Points

Thanks will give it a try.

Don't suppose you know about sanitizing data with silex/symfony?

I am not sure if I can use the method Alena used for sanitizing data

i.e. Can I use this;

    $tutoremail = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST,"tutoremail",FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL));
    $starttime = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST,"starttime",FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING));
    $location = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST,"location",FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING));
    $class = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST,"class",FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING));
    $driveremail = trim(filter_input(INPUT_POST,"driveremail",FILTER_SANITIZE_EMAIL);

within this;

$app->post('/addDriver', function(Request $request) use($app) {
    $tutoremail = $app['request']->get('tutoremail');
    $starttime = $app['request']->get('starttime');
    $location = $app['request']->get('location');
    $class = $app['request']->get('class');
    $driveremail = $app['request']->get('driveremail');
    $postcode = $app['request']->get('postcode'); //honey pot var should be empty
    $post = array($tutoremail,$starttime,$location,$class,$driveremail,$postcode); 


   //code to redirect to new page

}
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points
Simon Coates
Simon Coates
28,693 Points

there is a filter_var method that works mostly the same. Don't know symfony, so I don't know if symfony provides you with anything that helps with filtering.