form date field

@tykus I am using the same form for edit and create, so what's happening here is, I am checking to see if $event is set, and if it is, it will populate the edit form, and if it's not, the form will not be populated. This way one form can be used for editing and creating.

@STEREOH I tried this and this solution seems to only work when I'm using 2 seperate forms for edit and create.

@dmcglone27 yeah didn't understand that the $event variable wasn't set , what is your php version ?

@dmcglone27

<input id="date" type="date" class="form-control" name="date" value="{{ old('date', isset($event) ? $event->date : '') }}" required>

@STEREOH I'm running php version 7.4.16

@STEREOH I'll give this one a shot.

@STEREOH your suggestion works for both forms, but still doesn't populate the edit form.

I get this on the edit form instead of what's in the db. The create form works as expected. :-(

mm/dd/yyyy

@STEREOH all of my type text fields work as expected, it's that date field that doesn't want to work for some odd reason.

@dmcglone27 Format it as yyyy-mm-dd, if you're using carbon :

<input id="date" type="date" class="form-control" name="date" value="{{ old('date', isset($event) ? $event->date->toDateString() : '') }}" required>

@STEREOH That's it! Thank you! Can you explain to me what I am not understanding? Was it not working because I wasn't using the correct format?

@dmcglone27 yes, by default, a carbon instance __toString() ($event->date) returns the datetime (yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss )

and the format expected from a input type date is (yyyy-mm-dd)

@STEREOH Thank you. At first I was thinking it was my lack of laravel knowledge.