Php textual representation of numeric month
<p>I need a quick opinion on this I am building a CMS and I am using Php and Mysql,now doing the update part of the page but the problem is now I can collect the date from my MySql database and split it into different fields so that they go into the default selection in my select date tab but when it comes to month,what i get is the numerical day such as 02.But i want to convert it to the textual representation.pls how can I  achieve this.Thanks
below is my code;</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php $mydate = $sel_job['deadline'];list($year ,$month,$day)=explode("-",$mydate);?&gt;
     &lt;label for="deadline"&gt;Deadline&lt;/label&gt;
     &lt;em&gt;*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;select name= month&gt;
            &lt;option selected value="&lt;?php echo $month;?&gt;"&gt;
            &lt;option value=2&gt; February
            &lt;option value=3&gt;March
            &lt;option value=4&gt;April
            &lt;option value=5&gt;May
            &lt;option value=6&gt;June
            &lt;option value=7&gt;July
            &lt;option value=8&gt;August
            &lt;option value=9&gt;September
            &lt;option value=10&gt;October
            &lt;option value=11&gt;November
            &lt;option value=12&gt;December 
      &lt;/select&gt;
</code></pre>
