How to format date variable

[babystarman]

Hi, I am stumped by one small problem. I have a routine which gets data from a DB and displays it.
It works very well, apart from how the date is displayed. I have tried several possible ways of formatting the date but it always comes out in the SQL format: 2025-10-5 for example. Here’s a bit of what I have:

while ($row = $res->fetch_assoc()){
	$nicedate = date('m-d-Y',strtotime($row['talkdate']));	
		?>
		<h2><?php echo $nicedate; ?>: <?php echo($row['talktitle']); ?> </h2>

Everything works properly - apart from how the date is displayed. I know that ‘m-d-Y’ isnt how I want the string to look (I just did it like that so I could see a difference between what I want and what I get), I just don’t want it to be ‘2025-10-5’!
(some of the above is coming out in a bold font by the way)

[phdr]

@babystarman

(some of the above is coming out in a bold font by the way)

To post code on the forum, either put bbcode [code][/code] tags or markdown three back-ticks ``` on their own lines, above and below your code. I have edited your post above.

Your posted code works for me and outputs an expected - 10-05-2025: some title

[babystarman]

Ah, the variable to be formatted is ‘talkdate’. ‘talktitle’ comes out as it should (i.e., the value of the ‘talktitle’ variable).
Just checked what you said and… thanks again! I played about with the date format and it now comes out as it should (Sunday 5 October 2025)
I feel like sending you a xmas card!