format a date in to the format october 13, 2014 in php

To format a date like "October 13, 2014" in PHP, you can use the date() function along with the strtotime() function to convert a string to a Unix timestamp:

main.php
$date = date("F d, Y", strtotime("2014-10-13"));
echo $date; // output: October 13, 2014
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In the date() function, "F d, Y" specifies the format of the output date string, where:

• F: A full textual representation of the month (e.g. January, February)
• d: Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros (e.g. 01 to 31)
• Y: A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits (e.g. 1999, 2003)

The strtotime() function converts the string "2014-10-13" to a Unix timestamp that can be used as the second argument of the date() function.