CGI::Untaint::date - validate a date

  use CGI::Untaint;
  my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars);

  my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date');

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.

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()

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!

Date::Simple. Date::Manip.

Tony Bowden

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.