Dynamic Copyright Date

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Aug 212009
 

Ok, we’ve all got the standard copyright notice at the bottom of our web pages, something like © 2009.

© 2009

But let’s be honest, nothing looks worse than a copyright statement when the year is out of date! It gives the impression that you don’t care.

You can easily prevent this by using the php date() function:

&copy; <?php echo date('Y'); ?>

Really simple and one less thing to think about. Leave and forget :)

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Posted by ElanMan at 6:18 pm  Tagged with: , , , ,

  5 Responses to “Dynamic Copyright Date”

  1. Scott S says:
    August 21, 2009 at 9:06 pm
    &copy;
<?php ini_set('date.timezone', 'Europe/London');
$startYear = '2009';
$thisYear = date('Y');
if($startYear == $thisYear) {
    echo $startYear; }
else {
    echo $startYear.' &ndash '.$thisYear; } ?>
&nbsp;YOUR NAME

    Is the one I use. Slightly more advanced, but lets you have the whole 2008 – 2009 thing, accurate to time-zone :)

  2. Scott S says:
    August 21, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Your tag doesn’t work :(

  3. ElanMan says:
    August 21, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    Oh bugger, send me your code and I’ll amend your posts :)
    Meanwhile, I’ll have a look at the comment system.

    Cheers Scott :)

  4. ElanMan says:
    August 21, 2009 at 9:30 pm

    The best way at the moment to post code in a comment is to use the pre tag with a lang attribute of either php, css, javascript or html4strict like this:

    <body>
  5. Scott S says:
    August 21, 2009 at 9:57 pm
     Fair enough lol. Don't know why it's being spazzy!

    Cheers for the amendment.

   
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