Adding dashes to dates

[Anon]

We use a page to display dates from the database. Currently it displays a date like this 03157986. When it is displayed on the page I would like to add dashes so the string is formatted like 03-15-1986. How would I do this?

[simonsky]

Easy:

$date="03151986";

$year=substr($date,4,4);
$month=substr($date,2,2);
$day=substr($date,0,2);

print "$day-$month-$year";