Pre-populate date form

PHP
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Hi,
I am trying to pre-populate a date form with $date. I can echo $date to the html page inside php tags fine, can’t use the variable $date in the date form itself.

Here is part of the html,

<?php echo($date); ?>
       <form action="?<?php htmlout($action); ?>" method="post">
               <input type="submit" value="<?php htmlout($button); ?>">
               <p>Input date in form: <small>YYYY-MM-DD</small> <input type="date" name="date" <?php echo($date); ?> > <?php if (isset($_GET['setupNotes'])): ?><small>(Leave blank for todays date)</small></p><?php endif; ?>
           <table>
            <tr>

Here is an image of the html page and you can see that the date is being echoed fine.

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Any help greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Shane

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<?php
$date = '03/18/2015';
$today = date('m/d/Y', strtotime("Now"));

?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form action="" method="post">
	<input type="datetime" name="date" value="<?php echo ($date !== $today) ? $date : NULL; ?>">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Don’t know exactly what you’re trying to do, but maybe something like the above will help you.

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Hi,
Thanks for your reply.

The date variable is set in my controller file index.php to 1978-03-19 and I can echo it in the html file, but can’t get it to pre-populate the date form.

Thanks,
Shane

4

Yes it is working now. I had to set

value = "<?php echo($date): ?>"

as in,

   <form action="?<?php htmlout($action); ?>" method="post">
           <input type="submit" value="<?php htmlout($button); ?>">
           <p>Input date in form: <small>YYYY-MM-DD</small> <input type="date" name="date" value = "<?php echo($date); ?>" > <?php if (isset($_GET['setupNotes'])): ?><small>(Leave blank for todays date)</small></p><?php endif; ?>
       <table>

Thanks,
Shane

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