ITT #2: Automate Your Copyright Years

If you've built blogs for clients before, or created a site based on a content management system, then you know keeping copyright information up-to-date can be a pain.

It used to be that every year, I'd have to pull up every single client's site and edit the year, which would eat up a full day of my time. It was a terrible way to start the new year, and after a couple years of tedium, I decided to deal with it once and for all.

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Automatically Update the Year

My first instinct was to simply use PHP's handy date() and time() functions to automatically find the year. To get the current year, you can use this snippet of code:

<?php echo... read more

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