Date Formatting in Google Form

Google Form is a great app for making interactive form to be inserted in a website or blog. Google Form provides "click and select" input options to make the creation of the form's inputting fields a bliss. If a form needs a field to collect "Date", it's only one click away to insert. Unfortunately, the defaulted format of the "Date" field is mm-dd-yy. If you want just the month and year or other formats, it can't be done. There is no solution for it as of now. For those of us who have yet to learn to code our own interactive form, we just have to put up with this. In my case where I need only the year and the month, I just have to do it by inserting two separate questions.

How To Build A Star Rating System Using PHP

I want to build a rating widget to be used in this blog so I can review and rate stuff.  It's so frustrating because I've watched many videos and read a lot of blogs which supposedly teach people how to do this.  Yet nobody addresses my following questions:  

1. What is PHP?  
2. How do I deploy a PHP on Blogger or how do I integrate my blog with a PHP? 
3. Where do I find the PHP, where should I store it?  
4. Does Google provide PHP for me to fetch?

The maker of the above video doesn't even tell me what editor/software he is using to write the codes in the video or to make the so-called data base tables with. If any of you know, please, and please tell me in the comment area....