how to change date sql object to a string

[nephish]

lo there,

i have an app where i need to pull a Date object from a mysql table, but i cant print it out in
Year-month-day format, i have to print it out like day/month/year.

i figgure i could explode the string representing this date, like this:

$new_date = explode('-', $date);

then re-arrange it , but for some reason , it isn't working.
do i need to change the date object to a string in order to manipulate it as one ?
if so, how do i do that ?

thanks

[nephish]

never mind, i got it working.
thanks anyway

[liquorvicar]

hopefully you discovered PHP's date function