1) The insert behavior is expecting the date to come from a form elemewnt named "date"
the date picker element is named "lou-ann-events" though:
<input id="datepicker_1" name="lou-ann-events" type="text" />
change the name to date:
<input id="datepicker_1" name="date" type="text" />
2) a date column in MySQL Expects the date to be in the yyyy-mm-dd format.
add the following code at ine 1 to reformat the date to the expected format:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['date'])) {
$_POST['date'] = date("Y-m-d", strtotime($_POST['date']));
}
?>