Formatting birthdate question

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Can someone please tell me how to make this:

01-31-54

into this:

January 31, 1954

with the following line?

PHP Code:

$birthdate=$bbuserinfo['birthday']; 


I tried doing the vbdate($vboptions['dateformat'] string, but it gives me Dec, 31st, 1969 for anything before 1970. I know this is fixed in vB3, but for some reason it isn't working for that line. I am using this in a file for realchat to pass paranmeters to the chat program. This is the only thing I have that is not working the way I want it to.

Thank you in advance.