Question

I have a date input and I wish to have the first option empty or blank. That way the user will have to select something, if not, validation will pick it up.

By default today’s date preselected on load. I have managed to input a blank value but I cannot get it as the selected option.

echo $this->Form->input('date_of_birth', array('empty' => ''));

Answer 1

You should use boolean on empty attribute:

echo $this->Form->input('date_of_birth', array('empty' => true));