- strftime: documentation ( source)
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- strtotime: documentation ( source)
- setlocale: documentation ( source)
<?php
setlocale (LC_TIME, 'fr_FR.utf8','fra');
$date = "31/10/2014";
$date = explode("/", $element['dateR']);
$date = $date[1]."/".$date[0]."/".$date[2];
$date = strftime("%A %D %Y",strtotime($date));
echo $date;