HOW TO CREATE A FIELD DATE, you have the current date as the value ?. IF POSSIBLE IN VOLT AND PHTML

You can use helper https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/api/Phalcon_Forms_Element_Date.html More about tag helper read -> https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/tags.html#helpers-to-generate-form-elements

Or if you create form in form class as described in https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/forms.html use https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/api/Phalcon_Forms_Element_Date.html

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P.S. don't forget input with type date support only Blink and Webkit based browser (Google Chrome, Safari, Opera) for another browser you need override class for detect browser and automatically switch to using some js plugin