将datetime从mysql转换为人类可读的字符串

Question

I have a datetime that I get from a mysql table and I would like to display it as a string.It looks like the following and I would like it to look like July 14th 2016 at 5:00 PM.

2016-07-14 17:00:00

I tried formatting like the following, but it didn't work. How do i get it how I want?

    date_format($date, 'g:ia \o
 l jS F Y');