Date Formatting in PHP

I have a simple need to reformat a variable coming in as $DatePick, brought forward from a MySQL select in the format: 2003-11-18 I need to convert it to the format November 18, 2003 I am trying to avoid having to mess with the MySQL select statement, as the output is being passed through several documents. So I need to do it within PHP. I tried making a conversion like $DayReport = date ("F d, Y", $DatePick); But the value of $DayReport is neither correct nor does it change when $DatePick changes. For instance, in this example, the $DatePick value of "2003-11-18" gets converted to "December 31, 1969." TIA Dave Shugarts