a quick date and session id question

Hi all, I got two small questions. I'm trying to make an events calendar for my site, in which I want people to input in future dates, and then have the database display events by date. NOw they will probably be given a form which allows them to choose, and then gets inputted into the datase as a number : YYYYMMDD. But I want to display the data as "Monday, 20 April 2001. How can I do this? Or should I change the way I input data?? Secondly, Anyone know fof a good tutorial explaining what sessionid's in php are for and how to use them?? TIA! /sunny ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie