convert date to string

[webabolic]

I would like to convert the following:

2004-07-16 -> friday, july 17

thanks

[LordShryku]

[man]date[/man]

[webabolic]

like this?

date("D , F d", 2004-07-16)

can't get it to work

[webabolic]

$form_r[date_reminder] = '2004-07-17';

$year = substr($form_r[date_reminder], 0, 4);
$month = substr($form_r[date_reminder], 5, 2);
$date = substr($form_r[date_reminder], 8, 2);

date("D , F d", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $date, $year))

//returns
Sat , July 17

[LordShryku]

date("your format here", strtotime($date_to_convert));