[kyrnel]

I figured it out.

My suspicion was correct, since dates are typically stored as integer values the vbdate() function (and even the date() function it uses) cannot accept string values as the timestamp argument.
I had to use the strtotime() function to first convert the string date to an actual date value before using the date() function to modify its format.

PHP Code:

[size=2]$eventdate2 = strtotime($event[eventdate]);[/size]
[size=2]$up_eventdate = date("M-d",$eventdate2);[/size] 


That did it. PHP is fun.

Now if I could only figure out what this stuff means:
/"".=.""/

eval statements still confuse me....