How to echo a variable

Question

I can't get the following to work, been trying ages now :(

Day: <input type="date" name="Day" value=""<?php $currentDate;?>"" /> 


Day: <input type="date" name="Day" value="2014-02-11" />

The second one works fine but the first one won't. Thanks

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 11 '14 at 14:09

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you have a quotes problem and you are not echoing the value

instead of this :

value=""<?php $currentDate;?>""

try

value="<?php echo $currentDate ?>"

edited Feb 11 '14 at 14:09

Fleshgrinder

answered Feb 11 '14 at 14:08

Nouphal.M

Related: [HTML/PHP display current date in html date input](https://stackoverflow.com/q/36688388/2943403) – mickmackusa May 06 '22 at 07:00

Ryan Hendry · Answer 2 · 2015-02-25T12:27:52.417

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If you haven't yet defined the current date you can use:

Day: <input type="date" name="Day" value="<?=date('Y-m-d')?>" />

Otherwise:

Day: <input type="date" name="Day" value="<?=$currentDate?>" />

edited Feb 25 '15 at 12:27

answered Feb 11 '14 at 14:13

Ryan Hendry

It will not work. You need to use ` $currentDate; ?>` like in my answer – Victor Bocharsky Feb 11 '14 at 14:14
You don't need to use `=` in `"=$currentDate;?>"` – Victor Bocharsky Feb 11 '14 at 14:18
Yes you do. Otherwise you need to use `` – Ryan Hendry Feb 11 '14 at 14:22

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