I have been trying to Use a form written in HTML to input a "Name" and a "Date" into a SQL Database.
Concerning the connection to SQL everything is fine. It is just that using the the HTML5 Date Input type (which include a drop down calendar) the data and PHP does not seem to show up. When I input the data into the SQL table the "Name" shows up but the "Date" remains blank. I have put some of my code below. The Form is input.html and the data handling code is table.php. The DB name is users and the table name is staff.
input.html
<html>
<form action='table.php' method='POST'>
Name <input type="text" name="name"> <br />
Date of Expiry <input type="date" name="date1"> <br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> <br />
</form>
</html>
table.php
<?php
$name = $_POST["name"];
$date1 = $_POST["date1"];
$servername = "exampleserver.net";
$uname = "exampleusername";
$pass = "password";
$dbname = "users";
$errors = array();
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $uname, $pass, $dbname);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
if(mysqli_query($conn,"INSERT INTO staff (`name`, `date1`) VALUES('$name','$date1')")) {
header("Location: http://newpageafterdataentry.com");
die();
} else {
echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . mysqli_error($conn);
}
mysqli_close($conn);
?>
