Convert php date output to word? -

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is there built in function in php can convert date string?

i have tried

date("m js, y", strtotime("2014-04-12"));

but our client don't want output.

say have php variable holding date

$datetoday = '2014-04-12'

i want output in format: "four april 2 thousand , fourteen" or "april 4 2 thousand , fourteen"

is there php built in function through can this? if not please suggest me how can achieve this.

there not such parameters date() function, it's not hard convert manually.

Brazzel