In Query:

$sqlquery="Select DATE_FORMAT(posted_date,'%m/%d/%Y') as postdate from bookmarklet_details where project_id='$project_id'";

 
In php variable:

Code for Current date:

date(" F d, Y g:i A");

 
Output:
 

Code for day:

<?php $displayDate=date('Y-m-d'); echo "Backup of " .date("l",strtotime($displayDate)); ?>

 
Output:
 

Code for date -value come from database:

$query =mysql_query("select * from backup_history where backup_date < '$displayDate' order by backup_date desc limit 1"); $totalrecords=mysql_num_rows($query); if($totalrecords>0) { $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query); $previousDate= $row['backup_date']; echo date(" F d, Y ",strtotime($previousDate)); } ?>

 
Output: