Echo date function

PHP
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Probably a very easy quection but I can’t work it out. I have a database which has a date column in it. It stores the dates in the following format:
2004-08-02 14:57:51

How can I get php to echo only the date part of this and leave out the timestamp in the following format: 02/08/2004?

Any help much appreciated.

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Thanks for the help.

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echo date('d/m/Y', strtotime('2004-08-02 14:57:51'));