This is a really silly little trick – but if you have a PHP page that has a © copyright year at the bottom – there is no reason you should be updating that every year (unless it's just something you overlooked initially) 
As you get requests from clients now that we're in a new year to change the copyright year in the footer – do yourself a favor and use this instead so you never have to do it again.
<?php echo date("Y"); ?>
1 | Ryan Rampersad
Great tip! Sometimes when I work with plain static pages, I use a bit of javascript to change the year dynamically.
2 | tcoburn
Yeah I always forget about that.
I saw a page the other day, with a "mailto:" link listed on it, that a major web development company developed for a blind client, my best friend Chad, who has a website for a karaoke show he puts on here locally, he does this for a living, he's a really talented performer.
I keep thinking "gosh, he's gonna get so much spam in his email its not funny". I thought that was a horrible thing to do to a fellow blind person. I told him I'd fix it for him, but he says "well no thanks they know what their doing". well apparently not if they left a mailto link right to an email address for a spammer to harvest right on the front page of his website.
He's been a friend of mine since the 4th grade. I feel so bad for him, but maybe I'm making too much out of this, I don't know. Least they could have covered it with Javascript or something.
There is a major learning curve in using speech software for the blind, to read email and webpages to us, there's like a ton of different hotkeys to memorize, and he's going to get frustrated if over half his email is going to be spam.
5 | HighToro
This maybe works better:
/**
* Arma leyenda de copyright del tipo © 2009 Toro Corp. o © 2009-2010 Toro Corp. tomando como a#o de inicio el indicado como parametro y el a#o actual como final.
* @param unknown_type $anno_desde
* @return unknown_type
*/
function copyright_vigente($anno_desde = 2009) {
$anno_actual = date('Y');
$devolucion_annos = "© $anno_actual";
if ($anno_actual > $anno_desde) {
$devolucion_annos = "© $anno_desde-$anno_actual";
}
return $devolucion_annos;
}
Example:
$copy_tt = copyright_vigente(2009);
echo $copy_tt;
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