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Mar 17.2006

I am making a band a website and also a rudimentary cms. There is going to be an “add a gig” section so that they can enter location, date and description of a gig, info then stored in mysql. I’m wondering the best way to allow them to enter the date. The reason I ask is that they have a gigs page and I’d like it so that any gigs in the future are in the “upcoming gigs” section and any in the past are in the “previous gigs” section. I know I could put a note saying exactly what format it has to go in but I’d like to eliminate the possibility of user error.

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@NogDogMar 17.2006 — Surest way is to provide 3 select elements: one for month, one for day, and one for year. Then the script needs to combine them together into a suitable format for entry into the database, doing a bit of validation to make sure you don't have a Feb. 30 or Sep. 31. (see the checkdate() function).
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@DoppleauthorMar 17.2006 — Thanks NogDog. Of course that's the best way to do it, thinking about the way forum registration type forms do it.

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