PHP Set format date

Just a function to change the format of a mysql date to the one you want to.

function setDate($L_date,$L_dateFormat="dd-mm-yyyy"){//sets a date in a format
	if(strlen($L_date)>0){
		$L_arrTemp = split(" ",$L_date);
		$L_strDate = $L_arrTemp[0]; // 2007-07-21 year month day
		$L_arrDate = split("-",$L_strDate);// split date
		$L_strYear =  $L_arrDate[0];
		$L_strMonth = $L_arrDate[1];
		$L_strDay = $L_arrDate[2];

		if($L_dateFormat == 'yyyy-mm-dd'){//default
		    return $L_arrTemp[0];
        }
		elseif($L_dateFormat == "dd-mm-yyyy"){//day month year
			$returnDate = $L_strDay."-".$L_strMonth."-".$L_strYear;
			return $returnDate;
		}
		elseif($L_dateFormat == "mm-dd-yyyy"){//month day year
			$returnDate = $L_strMonth."-".$L_strDay."-".$L_strYear;
			return $returnDate;
		}
	}
	else return false;
}