FAQ: How to do yearly update of copyright information

[HarryB]

To do an automatic yearly update of the copyright notice on you site, add the following snippet of code to your template's index.php file:

      Copyright © 2005 - 

[bedlam]

Handy code ... thanks for sharing!

[zoomer]

might want to start that with a year before the current one, so you don't get 'copyright 2005 - 2005'...

[bluesaze]

well for now its got be 2005-2005 cos joomla has just started.........

[zoomer]

well for now its got be 2005-2005 cos joomla has just started.........

perhaps, but a copyright notice on a web page is for the CONTENT, not the back-end software.. mine dates back to 1994.

[HarryB]

well for now its got be 2005-2005 cos joomla has just started.........

perhaps, but a copyright notice on a web page is for the CONTENT, not the back-end software.. mine dates back to 1994.

Sorry if I'm confusing folks with the "2005" start date, but what I published here was meant to be an example.  You can use any year you want.  Maybe even make it part of a Joomla module with a parameter that allows you to set the start date!! 

[basic612]

Just updated my site template with:

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Copyright © <?php $startdate = "2004"; /* set your start year here */ echo $copyright = ( $startdate == date('Y') ? $startdate : $startdate . " - " . date('Y')) ; ?>

I'm sure there's a more elegant way to code this... but works for me for now! 

[WillieManillie]

I was content before just going into the version.php and statically entering my (c) format.  However, things have changed.  My sites title is now displaying on the footer.  How can this be removed and repleaced with whatever?

[basic612]

FYI: the footer for the template is is defined in:

/includes/footer.php

and this is included by the default templates in this line:

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<?php include_once( $GLOBALS['mosConfig_absolute_path'] . '/includes/footer.php' ); ?>

Edit footer.php or your template file itself to display as you would like.