converting custom field date format

Question

I am using the More Fields plugin which gives me the ability to create a date formatted YYYY/mm/dd and I want to convert that to be shown like: February 11, 2011

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Do you have issue with exactly converting or retrieval? Converting is trivial and is plain PHP:

date('F j, Y', strtotime($date));

For more complex and WordPress-specific way with localization support see date_i18n() function.

Answer 2

<?php
$date = '2000/10/28';
$a = preg_split ( '/\//', $date );
echo date('F j, Y', mktime( 0, 0, 0, $a[1], $a[2], $a[0] ) );