Problems viewing/editing a date in php/mysql - php

Question

I have a php page that is creating a table from a mysql database. In that table I have an edit button to edit the data and update the mysql database. All is working great except one column that is a date. If I pull the date into a text input it works fine, but I'd prefer this to be a date field ideally to have the calender selector.
When I change the input type to date it doesn't pull the date over - instead it displays dd / mm / yyyy. This is annoying as if I only need to change the other fields and not the date I have to manually add the date again each time I try to update. Could anyone advise how to populate the date box with the date from the mySQL database?
My code (where shipping_date is the affected date):
index.php displaying the table
$sql = "SELECT * FROM final_view1 WHERE freight = 'Fedex' OR freight = 'DHL' OR freight = 'IBC' ORDER BY shipping_date DESC";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
// output data of each row
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
echo "<tr><td>" . $row["shipping_date"] . "</td><td>" . $row["freight"]. "</td><td>" . $row["tracking_no"] . "</td><td>" . $row["vendor_name"] . "</td><td>" . $row["receiver"] . "</td><td>" . $row["pieces"] . "</td>
<td>" . $row["days_in_transit"] . "</td><td>" . $row["courier_status"] . "</td><td>" . $row["comments"] . "</td><td align=right><a href='courier_edit.php?id=".$row['id']."' class='button-edit1'>Edit</a>&nbsp
<a href='complete.php?id=".$row['id']."' class='button-complete'>Complete</a></td></tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
} else { echo "0 results"; }
$conn->close();
?>
courier_edit.php
<?php
include('db.php');
$result = $conn->prepare("SELECT * FROM final_view1 where id='$ID'");
$result->execute();
for($i=0; $row = $result->fetch(); $i++){
$id=$row['id'];
?>
<form class="form-horizontal" method="post" action="courier_edit_db.php<?php echo '?id='.$id; ?>" enctype="multipart/form-data";">
<table class="styled-table">
<tr class="active-row">
<td><label for="inputPassword">Company</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="freight" required value="<?php echo $row['freight']; ?>"></td>
<td><label for="inputPassword">Ship date</label></td>
<td> <input type="date" name="shipping_date" required value="<?php echo $row['shipping_date']; ?>"></td>

Answer 1

You said - "If I pull the date into a text input it works fine"
What is the date format written there ?
to fit your date into your <input type="date"> you need to change the date format,
You need to change the date format to standard date format.
I hope you understand what I want to say , try something similar to this -
<input name="any_name" type="date"
value="<?php echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime($data["congestart"])) ?>"/>