Saving a datepicker value to database in laravel

Question

I have this input in my form... I need to store the date picked from it, but I get a null value when I submit

<script type="text/javascript">
   $(function() {
       $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
   });
</script>

<input type="text" required="" placeholder="When are You Coming Back" name="datepicker2"  id="datepicker2" value="" name="datepicker2" class="txt">

am I missing something?? when I submit I don't get any values in the database, I am using laravel5

class LeaveController extends Controller
{
     public function ApplyLeave(Request $request)
    {

        Auth::user()->sent()->create([
            'tel'       => $request->tel,
            'email'    => $request->email,
            'start' => $request->datepicker,
            'end'       => $request->datepicker1,
            'supervisor'    => $request->supervisor,
            'department' => $request->department,
            'name'    => $request->name,
            'adress' => $request->adress,
        ]);   
        return view('home');
   }

Answer 1

Parsing dates should work:

'start' => Carbon::parse($request->datepicker),
'end' => Carbon::parse($request->datepicker1),

Also, it's a good idea to put start and end to the $dates array.