I am trying to change the date format in

```
print("<td class='month subscriber subscriber-fixed-alone fixed-cell'>$date</td>");

```

which prints `$date` as **2017-12**. How would I change this to **December 2017**?

I have tried

```
print("<td class='month subscriber subscriber-fixed-alone fixed-cell'>" . date_format($date, 'F Y') . "</td>");

```

but I get no value. The value is pulled from an HTTP API by

```
foreach ($content as $dates => $row) {
$date = $dates;

```

Think I am missing something rather simple.