CreateODBCDate |
Description
Creates an ODBC date object.
Returns
A date object, in normalized ODBC date format.
Category
Date and time functions
Function syntax

    CreateODBCDate(date)

See also
CreateDate, CreateODBCDateTime
Parameters

Parameter | Description
date | Date or date/time object in the range 100 AD-9999 AD.

Usage
This function does not parse or validate values. To ensure that dates are entered and processed correctly (for example, to ensure that a day/month/year entry is not confused with a month/day/year entry, and so on), Macromedia recommends that you parse entered dates with the DateFormat function, using the mm-dd-yyyy mask, into three elements. Ensure that values are within appropriate ranges; for example, to validate a month value, use the attributes validate = "integer" and range = "1,12".

Example

    <h3>CreateODBCDate Example</h3>
    <CFIF IsDefined("form.year")>
    <p>Your date value, generated with CreateDateTime:
    <CFSET yourDate = CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, form.hour,
    form.minute, form.second)>
    <cfoutput>
    <ul>
       <li>Formatted with CreateDate: #CreateDate(form.year, form.month, form.day)#
       <li>Formatted with CreateDateTime:
          #CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, form.hour, form.minute,
    form.second)#
       <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate: #CreateODBCDate(yourDate)#
       <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime: #CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate)#
    </ul>
    <p>The same value can be formatted with DateFormat:
    <ul>
       <li>Formatted with CreateDate and DateFormat:
          #DateFormat(CreateDate(form.year,form.month, form.day), "mmm-dd-yyyy")#
       <li>Formatted with CreateDateTime and DateFormat:
          #DateFormat(CreateDateTime(form.year, form.month, form.day, form.hour,
    form.minute, form.second))#
       <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDate and DateFormat:
          #DateFormat(CreateODBCDate(yourDate), "mmmm d, yyyy")#
       <li>Formatted with CreateODBCDateTime and DateFormat:
          #DateFormat(CreateODBCDateTime(yourDate), "d/m/yy")#
    </ul>
    </cfoutput>
    </CFIF>
    <CFFORM ACTION="createodbcdate.cfm" METHOD="POST">
    <p>Enter the year, month and day, as integers:
    <PRE>
    Year      <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="year" VALUE="1998" VALIDATE="integer"
          REQUIRED="Yes">
    Month      <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="month" VALUE="6" RANGE="1,12"
          MESSAGE="Please enter a month (1-12)" VALIDATE="integer"
          REQUIRED="Yes">
    Day          <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="day" VALUE="8" RANGE="1,31"
          MESSAGE="Please enter a day of the month (1-31)" VALIDATE="integer"
          REQUIRED="Yes">
    Hour      <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="hour" VALUE="16" RANGE="0,23"
          MESSAGE="You must enter an hour (0-23)" VALIDATE="integer"
          REQUIRED="Yes">
    Minute      <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="minute" VALUE="12" RANGE="0,59"
          MESSAGE="You must enter a minute value (0-59)" VALIDATE="integer"
          REQUIRED="Yes">
    Second      <CFINPUT TYPE="Text" NAME="second" VALUE="0" RANGE="0,59"
          MESSAGE="You must enter a value for seconds (0-59)" VALIDATE="integer"
          REQUIRED="Yes">
    </PRE>
    <p><INPUT TYPE="Submit" NAME=""> <INPUT TYPE="RESET">
    </cfform>

date |
Date or date/time object in the range 100 AD-9999 AD.