turn this string into dateformat

[KingOfHeart]

20091203192725

 

I only need to return the month and the day out of this string. I used substr to separate the data. How do I turn that output into date format.

Do I use a bunch of if statements, or do I use Date();?

I tried date but the output was wrong.

It returned something like this    January 06

and none of the dates are for January.

[JAY6390]

This will turn the date into the correct time (I assume it's 3rd December 2009 19:27:25 that the date should be)

$subject = '20091203192725';
$result = preg_replace('/^(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})/s', '$1-$2-$3 $4:$5:$6', $subject);
$time = strtotime($result);

$time will then contain the date that you can use with the date function as you wish, such as

echo date('Y M', $time);