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I am attempting to pass some date values from angular into Laravel using a GET request. I dont believe these frameworks are related specifically to this problem however.

I pass the following value from a text input field to my API 1/4/2017 .It is exactly this value. I need to use a text field because of a Angular JS plugin I am using to pick the date.

In my PHP API I have the following. 

$data = json_decode($requestData->data, false);

$date_object = new DateTime;

if($data->primary_reports_from_date == '1/4/2017') {
    print_r('identical');
} else {
    print_r('not identical');
}
die;

In Firefox and Chrome I get identical as my response, in IE I get not identical..

Edit: ,. after u_mulder's comment I did a var_dump() I got "string(23) "‎1‎/‎4‎/‎2017" for $data->primary_reports_from_date and "string(8) "1/4/2017" for 1/4/2017.

I have tried 

print_r($data->primary_reports_from_date.' | 1/4/2017');die;

And I am getting "‎1‎/‎4‎/‎2017 | 1/4/2017" in my response

I have also tried

trim($data->primary_reports_from_date) and stripslashes($data->primary_reports_from_date) but no matter what I do when the data comes from IE I cannot seem to match it up.

Am I missing something obvious with GET requests and how the data might be affected?

The issue I have is I am trying to use DateTime::createFromFormat() but it wont work when the data comes from IE, it just returns blank.

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This worked for me. I am unsure what hidden characters were there exactly but with this, in IE I also get identical as my result

if(preg_replace('/[^\PC\s]/u', '', $data->primary_reports_from_date) == '1/4/2017') {
    print_r('identical');
} else {
    print_r('not identical');
}
die;
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