<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$dbname = "sakila";

// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// prepare and bind
$stmt = $conn->prepare("INSERT INTO actor (first_name, last_name) VALUES (?, ?)");
$stmt->bind_param("ss", $first_name, $last_name);

// set parameters and execute
$first_name = $_POST["first_name"];
$last_name =  $_POST["last_name"];
$stmt->execute();

echo "New records created successfully";

$stmt->close();
$conn->close();

?>