How to Add a Dynamic Copyright to Your Web Site Footer

In preparation for the new year, this is a simple but useful PHP snippet for keeping your copyright notice up to date on your blog or Web site.

<?php
echo 'Copyright &copy; 2006 &ndash; ' . date("Y");
?>

The HTML entity – just means a dash. You could also do just:

Copyright &copy; <?php echo date("Y"); ?>

It works on WordPress blogs also — just insert the code snippet in footer.php.

This entry was written by Josh and posted on December 9, 2007 at 2:45 pm and filed under Scripts. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

Scott Clark

Posted December 9, 2007 at 8:10 pm | Permalink

I recommend that a date-last-modified bit be added for those of us pour souls who do web research a lot. Just remember to put this code on the actual content page, not include files that exist on every page, etc.

Posted December 9, 2007 at 8:11 pm | Permalink

Comment field swallowed my code… here ya go with slight mods:

<?php
 
$last_modified = filemtime("thisfile.php");
 
print "Last modified " . date("l, dS F, Y @ h:ia", $last_modified);
 
?>