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<?php $date = new DateTime('2000-01-01'); echo $date->format('F j, Y'); ?> This would display as January 1, 2000

Thanks, this gives me a good place to start.

After a couple days of search google and looking through the plethora of books here on the shelf, I have come to the conclusion that what I am looking for I simply don't have the right terminology for it as the results I am getting are clearly not what I am looking for. Therefore I post in hope that someone here could shine a light onto where I am going wrong. The Brief: I have an IP address lookup script that can use GET or POST to produce the GEO Location of an IP address, fairly simply stuff. However the system is getting abused which is not fair on our other visitors looking to find out those nasties. I would like to LIMIT the amount of lookups, say 10 in any one hour. This is where I hit the proverbial wall, as I am unsure as to how one could achieve this, nor do I have an understanding on what this would be called as my assumed "Limit Form Submits" does not bear fruit. Any help, guidance of RTFMs appreciated.