Date Formatting Question

I am trying to format the month portion of a date that I am trying to pull from MySQL to be placed into a drop down menu to modify the date. I have tried several ways and none seem to be working. I am pulling the date out of MySQL with: $sDate = explode("-", $row_events['Sdate']); And then attempting to insert each portion of the array into a drop down menu with: echo "<select name=Smonth>"; echo "<option selected>$sDate[1]</option>"; which is where I am running into the problem. I pull out the month as 2 digit numeric 01, 02, 03 etc., but I want it displayed as January, February, March, etc., I have tried the following with no success: Date("F",strtotime($sDate)); Strftime("%B:,$sDate); Date("F",$sDate); I would use MySQL to format the date, but I have three date fields to modify and it would be easier to do it in PHP Any pointers would be appreciated. Mark Bomgardner Technology Specialist KLETC