title: How to convert a date from yyyy-mm-dd to Month(in words) day year?
body: <p>I have trouble in converting this date. What I want is to convert the date formated in yyyy-mm-dd into Month day year. How can I achieve this?
  below is my code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$news = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblupcomingevents WHERE date &gt;= CURRENT_DATE() LIMIT 5") or die(mysql_error());
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($news))
  {?&gt;
  &lt;?php echo $row ["date"] ?&gt;
  &lt;?php echo $row ["place"] ?&gt;
  &lt;?php
  }
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>