Pick up a date with native codeigniter instead of HTML - codeigniter

Question

I'm using CodeIgniter and the MVC architecture to build a form on ExpressionEngine.
My problem is that CodeIgniter doesn't have the input date that I can use with HTML. My code is something like:
$data['cycle_begin'] = form_input('cycle_begin');
$data['cycle_month'] = form_input('cycle_month');
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
ee()->db->insert('exp_credit_tracker_assoc',
array(
'cycle_begin' => $_POST['cycle_begin'],
'cycle_months' => $_POST['cycle_month']
)
);
}
The view is something in the line of:
<div class="form-group">
<label for="cycle_type">cycle_type</label><?= $cycle_type ?>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="cycle_begin">cycle_begin</label><?= $cycle_begin ?>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="cycle_month">cycle_month</label><?= $cycle_month ?>
</div>
Is there any form_date which I could use or my only option is to change the input in my view file and grab the value in some way in my control file?

Answer 1

No there is no any form_date input type which you could use.
you can do some thing like this :
$data['cycle_begin'] = form_input('date_name',['type' =>'date']);
You can modify form_input as date input like this
<?php
$data = array(
'name' => 'mydate',
'id' => 'mydate',
'value' => '03-04-2012',
'type' => 'date',
'format' =>'m-d-Y'
);
echo form_input($data);
?>
For more : https://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/form_helper.html
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date