title: Insert/get the date from HTML to PHP Script to MYSQL Database
body: <p>Can you help me on what PHP code do I need in order to insert the date to the database from the HTML form. Here is the date format:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/563NV.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/563NV.png" alt="date format"></a></p>
  
  <p>HTML FORM: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="insertleave.php" method="post"&gt;
        &lt;label&gt;Date Filed:&lt;/label&gt;
        &lt;input type="date" name="datefiled"&gt;
  
        &lt;label&gt;Date of Leave:&lt;/label&gt;
        &lt;input type="date" name="leavedate"&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>PHP:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if( $_POST ){
      $config = parse_ini_file("phpconfig.ini");
      $conn = mysqli_connect($config['host'], $config['username'], $config['password'], $config['dbname']);
  
      if (!$conn){
          die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
      }
  
      -----CAN YOU PROVIDE ME WHAT THE CODE IS NEEDED HERE -----
  
  
      if (mysqli_query($conn, $sql)) {
         echo "OK!";
      } else {
         echo "Error: " . $sql . "&lt;br&gt;" . mysqli_error($conn);
    }
  }
  mysqli_close($conn);
  </code></pre>