php - Change XML date from yyyymmdd to Month Day, Year -

i'm using php output data xml file, date, outputs "20101110."

can use php change november 10, 2011? if so, how?

here's page , code:

    $file = 'http://www.gostanford.com/data/xml/events/m-baskbl/2010/index.xml';     $xml = simplexml_load_file($file);      foreach($xml $event_date){         if(!empty($event_date->event['vn']) && !empty($event_date->event['hn']) && !empty($event_date->event['vs']) && !empty($event_date->event['hs']))         {              echo '<li>';                 echo '<h3>', $event_date->event['vn'], ' vs ', $event_date->event['hn'], '</h3>';                 echo '<p><strong>', $event_date->event['vs'], ' - ', $event_date->event['hs'], '</strong></p>';                 echo '<p>', $event_date['date'], '</p>';                 echo '<p>', $event_date->event['local_time'], '</p>';             echo '</li>';            }     } 

thanks help!

you can use date() function, in combination strtotime() function:

echo date('f j, y', strtotime($event_date['date']));