Supported by some HTML5 browsers which will display a date picker
$CopyToUsbFromDate = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-2 day", strtotime(date("Y-m-d H:i:s")))); //Get current date -2 days
//$CopyToUsbFromDate = date('Y-m-d'); //Get current date
<input type="date" name="FromDate" value="$CopyToUsbFromDate">
datetime db field from date picker
When handling form submission
//Set datetime from date field
$AdvertCreated = mysqli_real_escape_string($dblink, $_POST['AdvertCreated']);
$AdvertCreated = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($AdvertCreated)) . "T00:00:00";
In the form
<p>
<label>AdvertCreated:</label>
<input type="date" name="AdvertCreated" value="<?php echo($AdvertCreated);?>">
</p>
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