[Resolved] replacing month numbers with names

[mr_tart]

I have an events database and a script which displays a list of the events sorted by date. The date is stored in 3 tables, one for day, month and year.

I'm looking for a way to take the month output of say 05 (for may) and to replace it with May.
This is how the script is at present

 while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

    $the_month = $row["month"];	
    $the_day = $row["day"];
    $the_year = $row["year"];
    $the_location = $row["location"];


echo("\t<tr>\n\t\t<td>$the_day" . "/" . "$the_month" . "/" . "$the_year" . "</td>\n");
             echo("\t\t<td>" . "$the_location" . "</td>\n");

Which gives the date as 21/05/2005 (uk format). I've read bits on str_replace but its way above me.
Can anyone help?

Matt

[Frederick]

echo date("F jS, Y",mktime(0,0,0,$the_month,$the_day,$the_year));

[mr_tart]

Thanks a million Frederick, you've just made my day 🙂

[bradgrafelman]

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