SQL

There are various ways of validating dates in PHP or MySql, sometimes however you may just need to check if a given string is a valid MySql date string, outside of a form validator. One way to achieve this is to use a regular expression, the simple utility function below will accept a string and return true if it’s a valid MySql date.

The other day I had a request from a client that wanted a list of all products in their store, that didn’t have any related product links. The list was required so that they could then login to the Magento admin and add related items to each of the products, ultimately …