How to reformat date in PHP?

Question

I am pulling the dates of various posts from a database. The dates are in the following format:

2009-08-12  Numeric Year - Numeric Month - Numeric Day 

How can I reformat these dates to something more user friendly like:

August 12, 2009  Numeric Month Numeric Date, Numeric Year 

Assuming that the date gotten from the mysql database is stored in a variable called:

$date = $row['date_selected']; 

Answer 1

Unlike the strtotime based examples, this allows you to ensure the month and day are interpreted in the correct order regardless of locale settings specified on the server.

$date = DateTime::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', '2009-08-12'); $output = $date->format('F j, Y');