How to set default date value to input of type 'date'?

Question

I have a date value in PHP variable $date which want to show in the input having type date with following code:

<input type="date" value="<?php echo $date;?>" name="date">

I want to show the value which is in $date variable in the input textbox of date. Also, user should be able to pick the value from the date picker, which is working fine, but i want a date should be there. I looked at previous questions, they assign the today's value, but i want to use the value i have in $date variable.

Answer 1

You can do something like

<?php 
$timestamp = time();
$date = date( "Y-m-d", $timestamp );
?>

<input type="date" value="<?php echo $date; ?>" name="date">

Explanation

date( "Ymd", $timestamp ) formats a timestamp to the appropriate format ( eg 2019-11-29 ).

Resources

• https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date

Answer 2

Try RMo solution or try.

<input name="date" type="date" value="<?php echo date('F d, Y'); ?>" />

Where:

• F stands for Month in words
• d stands for days in number,
• Y stands for year in 4 digit number.