Copyright on cruise control
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 (3 years, 9 months ago)
I’ve been running multiple websites for about six or seven years (You would think I’d be sick of it by now) and every new year, I have to change the footer of each website to correct the copyright year.
This wouldn’t be such a hassle if I only ran one website, but I’m responsible for updating the footer of many websites every year. And I’m lazy. So here’s my solution:
<?php
print date( "Y" );
?>
That basically spits out the year, according to your web server’s clock/calendar (which should be set to the right date and time, anyway). So the full code of my footer text for this website is:
Copyright © 2002 - <?php print date( "Y" ); ?> Chris Rhee, All rights reserved.
You can do this with other coding languages as well. I just happen to use PHP files for this website. There you go, website maintainers. Stay lazy.
Knowing is half the battle…
Unless you’re a hip hop fan (who follows underground music) who also happens to make websites, you won’t understand the pun of this headline. But there’s a mixtape that was pretty recently put out by the rapper, Copywrite, and it’s called Cruise Control Volume 1. Now you’re in the know.
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