PHP date conversion dd [th/st/rd] / month / yyyy

Question

I have my users entering the date in this format :- mm/dd/yyyy (11/21/2012)

My PHP script converts the date into the following format :- dd-Month-yyyy (21-November-2012)

I do this using :-

$new_date = date('d-F-Y', strtotime($user_date)); 

How can I have the date in this format :- 21st November 2012?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use S letter as following:

$new_date = date('jS F Y', strtotime($user_date)); 

Check manual.

Answer 2

It will output as you expect

$my_date = '2016-01-01';  echo date('F jS, Y', strtotime($my_date)); # January 1st, 2016 

while dS will also prepends 0

echo date('F dS, Y', strtotime($my_date)); # January 01st, 2016