Convert date("mdy") to date("M, D, Y") ?

[freeon]

How do I convert this date 072304 to July 23rd, 2004 ?
The original date I have is in the date("mdy") format and I need to ouput it in a different format. Can someone please help me with this?

Thanks

[drawmack]

<?php
$date = "072304";
$ts = strtotime(substr($date,0,2) . '/' . substr($date,2,2) . '/' . substr($date,4));
echo date('F d, Y',$ts);
?>

Prints out: July 23, 2004

[freeon]

Thanks very much 🙂