Any body know how to format date in php

hello

am looking to get a result like this
Oct 27

from a date format that's like this
2011-10-27 22:20:29

how can i do this using good ole Php or is it at all possible

any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks

 

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php , scroll down to example #4 to see similar solutions. You just need to get Month and day from date function.

 

hey russ thanx a bunch for the reply
wasnt quite what i was looking for but...

i was able to get it done by using the php mktime() function together with date function
here it is in case any body else might need to do something like this... or even if there is someone who knows of a shorter more efficient way of doing it please let me know, cause i gotta admit this code is kinda messy but it got it done for me

$added_date="2011-10-27 22:20:29";
$added_ymd=substr($added_date,0,10);
$added_ymd=explode("-",$added_ymd);
$added_hms=substr($added_date,11);
$added_hms=explode(":",$added_hms);
echo(date("M-d-Y",mktime($added_hms[0],$added_hms[1],$added_hms[2],$added_ymd[1],$added_ymd[2],$added_ymd[0]))."<br />");

 

$date = date("M d", strtotime("2011-10-27 22:20:29"));

PHP:

Oct 27

Code (markup):

 

wow min binary

simply simple, simply brilliant...
well done my friend
thanx for this
mind if i come to you for any php help in the future.

thank you again