Format Date Not Working

[KateMacwil]

Hi

I am would like to display the date as "Jan. 3, 2018" (example).
I have tried a few variations of trying to format my date field to the above and nothing is wokring for me.

		<?php
		$sEventDate = get_post_meta (get_the_ID(), "meta-text2", true);
   			
		if ($sEventDate)
		{
		     echo "<div style=font-size: 14px;'>Event Date: $sEventDate</div>";
		}
		else
		{
		     echo "<div style=font-size: 14px;'>Event Date: --</div>";
		}
		?>

 

[dsonesuk]

This should ideally be a question on a wordpress forum.

You need to specify the format required https://www.w3schools.com/php/func_date_date.asp

echo '<div style="font-size: 14px;">Event Date: '.date('M, n, Y', strtotime($sEventDate)).'</div>';