Getting MySQL timestamp(14) parsed

[wylim]

I am trying to take and set a variable called $date to a field in a MySQL table which works and prints out fine.
But when I try to use the date(%d, %m $y ,$date); it dosn't work. It returns so very wierd results. My goal is to take the date and display it more readably and I have no clue how to do this my date currently is display like this "20020730113043".

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[fitzbean]

  function mysql_timestamp_to_date($mysqldate)  
    {  
	$yr=substr($mysqldate,0,4);  
            $mo=substr($mysqldate,4,2);  
            $da=substr($mysqldate,6,2));  
            return "$mo/$da/$yr";
    }  

echo mysql_timestamp_to_date("20020730113043");

[wylim]

Thank you.