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Posted by gareth connop
gareth connop
14,865 Points

Dynamic copyright year

Does anybody know the most samantic way to add a dynamic year to your HTML sites copyright statement?

I know I could add php (<?php echo date ("Y"); ?>) in place of the current year but is this the correct way to do this?

Thanks in advance

Gareth

3 Answers

Aaron Martone
Aaron Martone
3,290 Points
Aaron Martone
Aaron Martone
3,290 Points

Well, aside from the fact that a copyright doesn't exist each year automatically, but assuming your papers are in line, I've always done the following with ColdFusion:

<cfoutput>Copyright © #year( now() )# Aaron Martone. All Rights Reserved.</cfoutput> Would generate:

Copyright ©2013 Aaron Martone. All Rights Reserved.

You could always encase the year in a <time> tag, but since it provides a span of a whole year, it wouldn't really add any semantic value in doing so.

Jake Craige
Jake Craige
4,913 Points
Jake Craige
Jake Craige
4,913 Points

Yeah I do it with the php date function the same way on my websites. you could use short tags I guess if you wanted it to be shorter or something

<?= date('Y') ?>
gareth connop
gareth connop
14,865 Points
gareth connop
gareth connop
14,865 Points

Hi Aaron/Jake,

Thanks for letting me know the ways in which you guys do things. I think I'm just going to add the PHP.

Thanks again.