PHP - no quiere insertar con mysqli

$servername = "web.cu";

$datebase = "bd";

$username = "root";

$password = "";

$conexion = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $datebase);

$consult =  "INSERT INTO tabla(name, edad)VALUES('$name', '$edad')";

mysqli_query($conexion, $consult);

$conexion = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $datebase);

if (!$conexion) {

    echo "Error: Unable to connect to MySQL." . PHP_EOL;

    echo "Debugging errno: " . mysqli_connect_errno() . PHP_EOL;

    echo "Debugging error: " . mysqli_connect_error() . PHP_EOL;

    exit;

}