How do you convert a date into its string counterpart (e.g. 2015-06-03 to June 3, 2015)?

Question

Given that the date is requested from another page and is redirected to the current page: The previous page passed the value

wdate_from = '2016-06-03';

$date_from = $_REQUEST['wdate_from'];

How would you convert it to string such that it would result to

June 3, 2016

Answer 1

This will get the job done!

$date=date_create($date_from);
echo date_format($date,"F d, Y");

Answer 2

If you know Month and Day part you can use mktime() function to get time. Using the $time to date('M d, Y, $time) to output desired result.

Or You can just use strtotime function directly.

Something like this.

echo date('M d, Y, strtotime($date_from));