date

[brown2005]

change

2006-05-31

as it comes out of the database to say

Monday 31st May 2006

[trq]

[url=http://php.net/date]date[/url]().

[wildteen88]

Well you'll want to use strtotime to convert 2006-05-31  into a timestamp and then use the date function convert 2006-05-31 into the date format you want.

[brown2005]

could u show me some code please wildteen... ive been trying and i cant get it to work...

$date = $blog_array[blog_date];

[GingerRobot]

[code]
<?php
function parsedate($date){
  $str = strtotime($date);
  $today = date('Y-m-d');
  $todaystr = strtotime($today);
  $diff = $todaystr-$str;
  $newdate = date('l jS \of F Y',time()- $diff);
  return $newdate;
}
?>
[/code]

Im not sure if it is necessary to use this:
  $today = date('Y-m-d');
  $todaystr = strtotime($today);

Perhaps i could have simpy used the time() function, but i wasn't sure if i may run into problems given that the format of the date being passed to the function is the Y-m-d and as such will not include the time for any hours during that day.