Laravel - after date validation with date from rules set
laravel, laravel-4, validation
Solution
If you look at the Laravel docs - it says
The dates will be passed into the PHP strtotime function.
The problem with `strtotime` is that it assumes you are using `m/d/Y`. If you want `d/m/Y` - you need to change it to `d-m-Y` to be correctly parsed.
So change your date format to `d-m-Y` and it will work.
Problem
I'm trying to validate two dates to ensure one is greater than the other using the `after` validate rule. I have my rules set like this: ``` $rules = array( 'date_from' => 'required|date_format:"d/m/Y"', 'date_to' => 'required|date_format:"d/m/Y"|after:date_from', // more rules ... ); ``` When using the following values: `date_from` = "01/06/2014" and `date_to` = "01/06/2014" OR `date_to` = "12/06/2014" everything is hunky dory, however.. using anything above 12 for day fails i.e. `date_to` = "13/06/2014" to `date_to` = "31/06/2014" I've also tried this and it gives the same results: ``` $dateFromForm = Input::get('date_from'); $rules = array( 'date_from' => 'required|date_format:"d/m/Y"', 'date_to' => 'required|date_format:"d/m/Y"|after:' . $dateFromForm, ); ``` Quite clearly to me it's reading the day as the month, any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks