Yii2 DateControl: How to set default value (date) - yii2

Question

I have in views/example/_form.php the following date field:
use yii\widgets\ActiveForm;
use kartik\datecontrol\DateControl;
...
$form = ActiveForm::begin();
...
echo $form->field($model, 'date')->widget(DateControl::className(), [
'type' => DateControl::FORMAT_DATE,
// 'value' => date('Y-m-d'),
// 'value' => date('d.m.Y'),
// 'value' => time(),
// 'value' => '02.12.2015',
// 'value' => '2015-12-02',
// 'value' => '2015-12-02 00:00:00 0000',
// 'value' => date('Y-M-d'),
// 'value' => date('d.M.Y'),
// 'value' => date('dd.MM.yyyy'),
]);
...
ActiveForm::end();
None of my attempts to set the default date was successfull (see the commented lines above). I have always received no error message and no default value. The resulting HTML input field looks always the same (the 'value' is empty):
<input type="text" id="yiiversion-date-disp" class="form-control" name="date-yiiversion-date" value="" data-krajee-datecontrol="datecontrol_1e107159" data-datepicker-source="yiiversion- date-disp-kvdate" data-datepicker-type="2" data-krajee-kvdatepicker="kvDatepicker_0aa71c62">
Configuration in config/main.php looks like this:
'modules' => [
'datecontrol' => [
'class' => 'kartik\datecontrol\Module',
'autoWidget' => true,
'autoWidgetSettings' => [
'date' => [
'pluginOptions' => [
'autoclose' => true,
'todayHighlight' => true,
'todayBtn' => true,
],
],
],
],
],
The dates are displayed as 01.01.2015 ('dd.MM.yyyy') and saved as 2015-01-01 ('Y-M-d') - MySQL datatype DATE.
More information:
https://github.com/kartik-v/yii2-datecontrol
http://demos.krajee.com/datecontrol

Answer 1

As suggested by InsaneSkull the solution is quite simple. I had to add to the correspondig controller only: $model->date = date('Y-m-d');
The resulting action could look e.g. like this:
public function actionCreate()
{
$model = new YiiTask();
if ($model->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) && $model->save()) {
return $this->redirect(['view', 'id' => $model->id]);
} else {
$model->date = date('Y-m-d');
return $this->render('create', [
'model' => $model,
]);
}
}