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.
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
The function old() takes a second parameter, the default. Using the link provided by user Chris, it looks like you want the format d/m/Y. With that in mind, the following should do the trick.
{{ old('date', date('d/m/Y')) }}