php format date

How can I format a date in php to be 07/08/2007?

check out the date (http://www.php.net/date) function

i couldn't figure that out

i have date $mydate -- in format of mysql - how can i format that to mm/dd/yyyy

If your date is comming from a database, use the mysql DATE_FORMAT() function - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format - in your SELECT query to format it the way you want.