MySQL data format to display format in PHP

Easty way to convert 2004-12-05 style date (mysql) to December 5, 2004 in PHP

//format date for printing
//I already have variable $mysqlDate which is 2004-12-05
//Remove the '-' from the standar MySQL sate format

list($Year,$Month,$Day) = split('-',$mysqlDate);

//Create a UNIX style timestamp from the result

$stampeddate = mktime(12,0,0,$Month,$Day,$Year);
$displayDate = date("F j, Y",$stampeddate);
print $displayDate;


I got this from a forum posting of njgMike99. You can do conversion when accessing mysql but it is easy for me to think in php even that means I need to convert it to unix timestamp once. Am I crazy?

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