将DATE 2012-09-16转换为php date（“l F jS”）（PHP / mySQL）

Question

I have a dates in mySQL stored in format 2012-09-16 as DATE format and I want to output and convert the date into the format date("l F jS").

I am using a while loop to query my table which SELECTS the date:

while($rowWeek=mysql_fetch_assoc($resultWeek)){
    echo date("l F jS", $rowWeek[dt]); 
}

The code above outputs: Wednesday December 31st. For each and every day which tells me that date() doesn't like the format being used from $rowWeek[dt]

when it should loop through 7 days of the current week.

echo $rowWeek[dt];

outputs the correct dates:

2012-09-16
2012-09-17
2012-09-18
2012-09-19
2012-09-20
2012-09-21
2012-09-22

How do I convert the SELECTED date format of 2012-09-16 and convert it to the more pleasant format of date("l F jS")?

Answer 1

use strtotime():

echo date("l F jS", strtotime($rowWeek['dt']));