Auto updating copyright

A short function that helps you keeping the current year in your copyright sentence.

function autoUpdatingCopyright($startYear){
 
    // given start year (e.g. 2004)
    $startYear = intval($startYear);
 
    // current year (e.g. 2007)
    $year = intval(date('Y'));
 
    // is the current year greater than the
    // given start year?
    if ($year > $startYear)
        return $startYear .'-'. $year;
    else
        return $startYear;
}

Snippet Details

Author
Jonas John
License
Public Domain
Language
PHP
Created
04/24/2007
Updated
04/24/2007
Tags
date functions, examples, simple

print '&copy; ' . autoUpdatingCopyright(2001) . ' Jonas John';
 
/*
Output:
 
(c) 2001-2007 Jonas John
 
*/

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Older comments:

Bill March 06, 2010 at 18:59

If you notice, his will output a range of years based on the $startyear parameter.

So autoUpdatingCopyright(2006) would output

2006-2010

Your example just outputs 2010.

A matter of choice as to which you like best I guess... The range is common however...

Some)ne February 18, 2010 at 04:27