Wondering if there is a php function i can use to take a date and format it to "10 Jan 2011" date format. I know its easy to get todays date like this but can i pass in a unix date or a standard format i.e. 2011-01-10 and get it returned in the format above?

Any help much appreciated. Cheers.

Look at the date() function (manual), you can pass in a Unix timestamp as the (optional) 2nd argument.

You can use , <?=date("d M Y",mktime());?> betic.

Salathe - your suggestion worked. Just changed the date to a unixdate then fed it into the date() function with the required format specified. Many Thanks.