PHP - Moved: Date_format

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Hi all,

I'm abit stuck, i've got two variables which a

$timestamp = $myrow["t_stamp"]; - Grabbed from DB - stored like 2012-04-03 14:02 (for example)
$format='F j, Y, g:i a'


I'm trying to get it to display like Tuesday, 3rd April 14:02 or something like that but i just cant 

$timestamp->format($format) is what i've tired working with etc but nothing seems to work as it is only displayed as F j, Y, g:i a as text :S

Can anyone help me please.

Many thanks!
J

Can someone tell me what is the fault with my code?

SELECT date_format(datecolumn,'%d %M %Y') as date FROM news WHERE article_id=$id

$query = "SELECT * FROM  my_db ORDER BY timestamp DESC";
$results = mysql_query($query);
 
$returnS="";
while($line = mysql_fetch_array($results))
{
$returnS.= $line["subject"].",,".$line["$id"].",,".$line["article"].",,".$line["link"].",,,";
}
echo $returnS;
mysql_close($link);
?>

iwant this format
dd-mm-yyyy

i have a DATETIME var  set to DATETIME type  in the DB
Code: [Select]
<?php echo date_format($row['DATETIME'],'%m-%d-%Y') ?>

ERROR:
   
Warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTime, string given on line 510

At which point do I use DATE_FORMAT()?

On insert, on select, or ideally can I use it when I echo it out? I haven't used this function before, so I'm not too familliar with it. Can I do something like this?..

echo DATE_FORMAT($item['created_at'], '%d/%m/%Y');