自动设置日期输入字段的选项

Question

When presenting a user with a date input form

<input type="date" class="form-control" name="date" value="{{ old('date') }}">

Most of the time although not always the user needs to enter todays date.

What are my options for setting the default value to todays date.

Im using Blade, PHP, Bootstrap, Laravel, CSS, HTML

If any of them resources have something to handle this.

Thanks in advance for any feedback it's appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use PHP to echo the date:

<?php $today = date("m/d/Y"); ?>
<input type="date" class="form-control" name="date" value="<?php echo $today; ?>">

This will echo a date in the format of Month/Date/Year, e.g. 12/31/2000

The documentation here explains in more detail on how to format the date