Hi, I supposed that all our websites will have the 'year' shown at the bottom of each and every page. I always use the Ctrl+H replace command to change the year when a new year arrives, it's easy, but after that I will have to upload to update all my pages on the server just because of that little changes. Imagine I got 5000 pages on a site, the uploading can take some time.

I ever created an image having the year '2007' on it and then place the image on every page. When 2008 arrived, I only changed and upload the image file and every page gets changed. But I think there's a better way without using image file. Anyone got any smart tactic or script that can share with me? I would appreciate that very much. Thanks.

Laura

P.S. In case you don't know what 'year' I'm referring to - it's the year date with the copyright symbol at the bottom of a standard web page.

Put this bit of code in the body of your document where you want it to appear:


To make it work you need to name your files with the extension .php instead of .html

If you want to keep the file extension .html, you can use this script from JavaScript Kit:

If your site is hosted on a Unix or Linux, you can use this snippet:

<!--#config timefmt="%Y"--> Copyright <!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL" -->

(Think that's right; it's been a while.)

That gets me to wondering. For those of us that use SCCP, will the copyright date at the bottom of each page automatically change to the new year? I don't remember doing anything on my part to put it there in the first place. Could be wrong. It's hard to remember, there so much work to making a website.

The function getdate() returns an associative array. There's no need to grab data that won't be used. On the other hand, the date() function returns a date string based on the params you pass in quotes. In this case, I'm asking for the full, four digit year be returned. So, this is much shorter under the circumstances. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

Thanks, David. My PHP knowledge has not excelled yet, due to health and other commitments...

Inger, you're welcome. Be well and happy new year!

Hi Paul, I tried your code... it didn't work (my site is hosted on Linux). Then I tried the javascript from Inger, it worked!

Whether it worked or didn't, I'm happy that all of you have spent the effort to help me with this. Paul, Inger, David and Steven... thank you very much. Really appreciate your help. Have a fruitful 2011!