PHP Date Format question

[laide234]

I am pulling a date from a database entry.  <?php echo $job_date; ?> displays as '2006-08-07 00:00:00'

I would like to format the display. But when I use <?php echo date("F, jS Y", $job_date); ?> I get 'December, 31st 1969' .

This is the format that I want, but where is it getting December from???

[logged_with_bugmenot]

'December, 31st 1969' is the default date for an invalid timestamp. A recent timestamp should look like: 1155056922. You can't provide the date() function with '2006-08-07 00:00:00'. You need to give it an actual timestamp which can be generated with mktime().

[Daniel0]

[code]echo date("F, jS Y", strtotime($job_date));[code]

Try that...[/code][/code]

[laide234]

You, sir, are a godsend!  ;D
Thanks Daniel0. It worked perfectly.