PHP Regex to check date is in YYYY-MM-DD format

Question

I\'m trying to check that dates entered by end users are in the YYYY-MM-DD. Regex has never been my strong point, I keep getting a false return value for the preg_match() I

Answer 1

I was searching "how to validate date" and found this solution, Its old but i ll share below method that can be use to validate date in php,

checkdate('01', '31', '2019')