[Resolved] date formating

[SpanKie]

Kind of in a jam ... with little time to spare.

Anyone has a function that can reformat dates .. or know if PHP itself has one to do this.

The jam is date information stored in a database is in the following format:

8/20/2004

Need to have this displayed though as:

Friday, August 20, 2004

I guessing there has to be a simple solution for this.

Any help would be greatful!
Thanks in advance!

[akillez]

[man]date[/man]
assuming you stored the date in a date field...

[LordShryku]

That's probably a varchar field, so you'd need date and strtotime.

[SpanKie]

strtotime, exactly what I was looking for. I knew there had to be something. Sure beats having to write a custom function, considering I have 10 mins left until demo time.

Thanks for the help ... very very much appriciated.

EDIT: Though I would post the code for others to view. Quite simple once you know what function to use. (tnx again).

//$data[3] is mysql result for date field
$sample = date("F j, Y", strtotime($data[3]));
echo $sample;