Automatic Copyright Dates

Automatically keep your copyright dates current on your website

Most websites include a copyright disclaimer at the bottom of the page. Having a copyright line that is out of date can be a bad reflection on your site. This little PHP script automatically changes the copyright to the current year every year so that it never goes out of date.

<?php
$time = time () ;
//This line gets the current time off the server

$year= date("Y",$time) . "<br>";
//This line formats it to display just the year

echo "Copyright 2002 - " . $year;
//this line prints out the copyright date range, you need to edit 2002 to be your opening year
?>

This code could be placed directly on the page, or could be held in a separate file and called with a file include.