Auto Generated Copyright Year using PHP

[Usman Haider]

While a webmaster is busy in developing and managing his website, he has to manually change the copyright year in the footer of his website every year. This is a task which can be assigned to PHP for doing automatically as soon as the new year starts. Here it is how to do it:

Displaying Current Copyright Year Only:

Auto Change Copyright Year using PHP

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<?php echo "&copy; " . date("Y"); //displaying current year only. ?>

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<?php echo "&copy; " . date("Y"); //displaying current year only. ?>

Displaying Start Year and Current Year:

Displaying start year and current copyright year

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<?php echo "&copy; 2012-" . date("Y"); //displaying current year only. ?>

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<?php echo "&copy; 2012-" . date("Y"); //displaying current year only. ?>

 Displaying Error Free Start Year and Current Year:

Displaying Error Free Start Year and Current Year

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<?php function dynamic_copyright_year($year = 'auto') { if($year == 'auto' OR $year > date('Y') OR $year == date('Y')) echo '&copy; '.date('Y'); elseif($year < date('Y')) echo '&copy; '.$year.' - '.date('Y'); } dynamic_copyright_year(); // use this for displaying current year only. dynamic_copyright_year('2012'); // use this for displaying start year(2012) and current year ?>

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<?php function dynamic_copyright_year($year = 'auto') {    if($year == 'auto' OR $year > date('Y') OR $year == date('Y')) echo '&copy; '.date('Y');    elseif($year < date('Y')) echo '&copy; '.$year.' - '.date('Y'); } dynamic_copyright_year(); // use this for displaying current year only. dynamic_copyright_year('2012'); // use this for displaying start year(2012) and current year ?>

Hope it will save some of your time in coming years. 🙂

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