Thanks for responding.
when I echo $posdate I get a date like this: 2011-04-14
I just want to format that to m d y
$sqlgb ="SELECT * FROM `guestbook`, `obituaries` WHERE guestbook.obits_id = '$id' ";
$results=mysql_query($sqlgb) or die("Error: ". mysql_error(). " with query ". $sqlgb);
$num = mysql_num_rows($results);
if ($num > 0 ) {
$i=0;
while ($i < $num) {
$id = mysql_result($results,$i,"id");
$obits_id = mysql_result($results, $i, "obits_id");
$name = mysql_result($results,$i,"name");
$email = mysql_result($results,$i,"email");
$message = mysql_result($results, $i, "message");
$postdate = mysql_result($results,$i,"postdate");
$date = date('m d,Y', "$postdate");
thats the code block I'm using