php date stripping, covert one format to another -

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evening struggle moving dates between 1 format , another. simple struggling find answer on forums.

i have date

$date = "2013-08-12 00:00"; 

and want echo out

12th aug 2013 

can please

use date , strtotime:

$date = "2013-08-12 00:00"; $newdate = date('js m y', strtotime($date));