Copyright Notice Block w/auto year

[DFDuck]

I'm not a php coder so don't laugh (too hard).

Why spend the first days of the new year updating the copyright notices on your web site, let php do it.  This little snip works nicely for me as a Bottom Panel Block, the year displayed is always the current year.

phpbox:

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echo '<div align="center" class="smalltext">Copyright © '.date("Y",mktime()).' Acme Midget Works, All Rights Reserved</div><br /><br />';


-- Duck

[IchBin]

What a great idea DFDuck. Thanks!

[Zetan]

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ones. I'll probably use this, thanks.  :up:

[blizz-craft]

This block is soo awesome, Im posting so that this can be viewable to others once again!

[jdvarner]

Awesome!

[blizz-craft]

This sill works on other versions of tp and smf.

[G6Cad]

Have you tried it ?  When you have, let us know...

[Lesmond]

Yep works on smf 119 and tp v1.0 beta 4 in a lower panel  :up:

[JPDeni]

It's very simple code, using a very basic php command and no database access, so it should work in any php code.

I've been using something similar on my site for quite a while, except that I wanted to include the year we started as well as the current year and my site still uses TP .98, so my code is in the index.template.php file of the theme.

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echo '<span class="smalltext">All material Ã,© 2002-' . date("Y") . ' morethanspike.com, unless otherwise noted.</span>';


[blizz-craft]

Sorry, I was gone for a while, so I couldnt reply... It works like a charm... It also works with other forum softwares such as VB, tested it on my friends site... Its an Outstanding code!

[blizz-craft]

Well, its very simple to add the year started off on the other code to:
echo '<div align="center" class="smalltext">Copyright Ã,© '.date("Y",mktime()).' Acme Midget Works, All Rights Reserved</div>

';

Year Added:
echo '<div align="center" class="smalltext">Copyright Ã,©2008 '.date("Y",mktime()).' Acme Midget Works, All Rights Reserved</div>

';

[JPDeni]

Absolutely. Although it can be a simpler than what you have. Instead of

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date("Y",mktime())


you can use

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date("Y")


It has exactly the same result.