Format date in MySQL to return MonthName, Year

Question

I have rows in a table that I need to order by date. Easy enough, use the date datatype to store them, ORDER BY date blah blah.

However, I\

Answer 1

Once you get date in mysql, use this in php

$date = mysql_result(mysql_query("SELECT date FROM table"),0,0);
echo date("F, Y", strtotime($date));