How to display back date in Form:date (laravel collective)

In my form , I have this {{Form::date('date', \Carbon\Carbon::now())}}

In my controller, i did this:

$date = \Carbon\Carbon::parse($request->current_date);

$day = $date->day;
$month = $date->month;
$year = $date->year;

So during edit, I want to pass back the $date,$month,$year that I saved in database back to the blade template form. What is the format I need to pass back to the blade template ?

```{{Form::date('date', 'mm/dd/yyy'}}``???`

tisuchi

9 years ago

Level 70

@PeterPan

You are able to display old input data like so-

<input type="text" name="username" value="{{ old('username') }}">

Reference: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/requests#old-input

PeterPan

9 years ago

Level 1

@tisuchi The laravel collective Form::date is able to provide something like a nice gui to pick the dates. During edit, I would like same feature when the user reclick the dates to picka new date.

PeterPan

9 years ago

Level 1

I had to revert to plain HTML

     ```                 <input type="date" name="sale_date" value="{{$db->year}}-{{$db->month}}-{{$db->day}}" />```

And the format is "yyyy-mm-dd" even though the GUI is showing up as "mm-dd-yyy" at the text input.

PeterPan

9 years ago

Best Answer

Level 1

The previous solution is buggy as some month & days might be single values in my database. e.g April is 4 in my DB but the display needs it as 04.

Here is the final solution:

<input type="date" name="sale_date" value="{{ \Carbon\Carbon::createFromDate($db->year,$db->month,$db->day)->format('Y-m-d')}}" />

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