How to Automatically Add the Current Year in PHP

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Happy New Year. In this lesson we cover how to automatically add the current year to your copyright. Quite appropriate for today!

The magic of using a server-side language like PHP is that we can automate many processes.

At this time of year, I can imagine that many sites will have the incorrect year displayed in their copyright message, especially if they are standard HTML sites.

Using a simple line of PHP code we can automatically add the copyright year.

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