How do I use PHP to get the current year

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I want to put a copyright notice in the footer of a web site  but I think it s incredibly tacky for the year to be outdated  How would I make the year update automatically with PHP  4 or PHP  5

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Print current month with M  day with D and year with Y   lt  php echo date  quot M D Y quot      gt

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http   us2 php net date  echo date  Y

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lt  php  time now mktime date  h   5 date  i   30 date  s      dateTime   date  d m Y   h i s A   time now    echo  dateTime    gt

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use a PHP function which is just called date     It takes the current date and then you provide a format to it  and the format is just going to be Y  Capital Y is going to be a four digit year    lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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echo date  Y   gives you current year  and this will update automatically since date   give us the current date

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If you are using the Carbon PHP API extension for DateTime  you can achieve it easy    lt  php echo Carbon  now  - gt year    gt

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print date  Y      For more information  check date   function documentation  https   secure php net manual en function date php

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My super lazy version of showing a copyright line  that automatically stays updated    amp copy   lt  php   copyYear   2008    curYear   date  Y     echo  copyYear      copyYear     curYear     -     curYear          gt  Me  Inc    This year  2008   it will say       copy  2008 Me  Inc    Next year  it will say       copy  2008-2009 Me  Inc    and forever stay updated with the current year     Or  PHP 5 3 0   a compact way to do it using an anonymous function so you don t have variables leaking out and don t repeat code constants    amp copy    lt  php call user func function  y   c date  Y   echo  y    y   c   -   c        2008     gt   Me  Inc

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Here s what I do     lt  php echo date  d-m-Y     gt    below is a bit of explanation of what it does    d   day m   month Y   year   Y will gives you four digit  e g  1990  and y for two digit  e g  90

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You can use either date or strftime  In this case I d say it doesn t matter as a year is a year  no matter what  unless there s a locale that formats the year differently    For example    lt  php echo date  Y      gt    On a side note  when formatting dates in PHP it matters when you want to format your date in a different locale than your default  If so  you have to use setlocale and strftime  According to the php manual on date      To format dates in other languages    you should use the setlocale   and   strftime    functions instead of   date      From this point of view  I think it would be best to use strftime as much as possible  if you even have a remote possibility of having to localize your application  If that s not an issue  pick the one you like best

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strftime   Y      I love strftime   It s a great function for grabbing recombining chunks of dates times    Plus it respects locale settings which the date function doesn t do

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lt  php echo date  Y      gt    This code should do

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in my case the copyright notice in the footer of a wordpress web site needed updating  thought simple  but involved a step or more thann anticipated   Open footer php in your theme s folder   Locate copyright text  expected this to be all hard coded but found   lt div id  quot copyright quot  gt       lt  php the field  copyright disclaimer    options      gt   lt  div gt    Now we know the year is written somewhere in WordPress admin so locate that to delete the year written text  In WP-Admin  go to Options on the left main admin menu   Then on next page go to the tab Disclaimers   and near the top you will find Copyright year   DELETE the    symbol   year   the empty space following the year  then save your page with Update button at top-right of page   With text version of year now delete  we can go and add our year that updates automatically with PHP  Go back to chunk of code in STEP 2 found in footer php and update that to this   lt div id  quot copyright quot  gt       amp copy  lt  php echo date  quot Y quot      gt   lt  php the field  copyright disclaimer    options      gt   lt  div gt    Done  Just need to test to ensure changes have taken effect as expected    this might not be the same case for many  however we ve come across this pattern among quite a number of our client sites and thought it would be best to document here

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year   date  quot Y quot   strtotime  yourDateVar

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You can use either date or strftime  In this case I d say it doesn t matter as a year is a year  no matter what  unless there s a locale that formats the year differently    For example    lt  php echo date  Y      gt    On a side note  when formatting dates in PHP it matters when you want to format your date in a different locale than your default  If so  you have to use setlocale and strftime  According to the php manual on date      To format dates in other languages    you should use the setlocale   and   strftime    functions instead of   date      From this point of view  I think it would be best to use strftime as much as possible  if you even have a remote possibility of having to localize your application  If that s not an issue  pick the one you like best

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strftime   Y      I love strftime   It s a great function for grabbing recombining chunks of dates times    Plus it respects locale settings which the date function doesn t do

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BTW    there are a few proper ways how to display site copyright  Some people have tendency to make things redundant i e   Copyright    have both the same meaning  The important copyright parts are     Symbol  Year  Author Owner and Rights statement          Using PHP   HTML     lt p id  copyright  gt  amp copy   lt  php echo date  Y      gt  Company Name All Rights Reserved lt  p gt    or   lt p id  copyright  gt  amp copy   lt  php echo  2010-  date  Y      gt  Company Name All Rights Reserved lt  p

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My super lazy version of showing a copyright line  that automatically stays updated    amp copy   lt  php   copyYear   2008    curYear   date  Y     echo  copyYear      copyYear     curYear     -     curYear          gt  Me  Inc    This year  2008   it will say       copy  2008 Me  Inc    Next year  it will say       copy  2008-2009 Me  Inc    and forever stay updated with the current year     Or  PHP 5 3 0   a compact way to do it using an anonymous function so you don t have variables leaking out and don t repeat code constants    amp copy    lt  php call user func function  y   c date  Y   echo  y    y   c   -   c        2008     gt   Me  Inc

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To get the current year using PHP   s date function  you can pass in the    Y    format character like so    Getting the current year using   PHP s date function   year   date  quot Y quot    echo  year     Getting the current year using   PHP s date function   year   date  quot Y quot    echo  year   The example above will print out the full 4-digit representation of the current year  If you only want to retrieve the 2-digit format  then you can use the lowercase    y    format character   year   date  quot y quot    echo  year  1 2  year   date  quot y quot    echo  year  The snippet above will print out 20 instead of 2020  or 19 instead of 2019  etc

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print date  Y      For more information  check date   function documentation  https   secure php net manual en function date php

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For up to php 5 4    lt  php      current  new  DateTime         future   new  DateTime    1 years         echo  current- gt format  Y           For 4 digit   Y   for 2 digit   y     gt    Or you can use it with one line   year    new DateTime - gt format  Y      If you wanna increase or decrease the year another method  add modify line like below    lt  PHP     now     new DateTime     now- gt modify  -1 years      or  1 or  5 years    echo  now- gt format  Y        and here again For 4 digit   Y   for 2 digit   y     gt

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lt  php date default timezone set  Asia Kolkata     gt  lt   date  Y     gt    You can use this in footer sections to get dynamic copyright year

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strftime   Y      I love strftime   It s a great function for grabbing recombining chunks of dates times    Plus it respects locale settings which the date function doesn t do

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For up to php 5 4    lt  php      current  new  DateTime         future   new  DateTime    1 years         echo  current- gt format  Y           For 4 digit   Y   for 2 digit   y     gt    Or you can use it with one line   year    new DateTime - gt format  Y      If you wanna increase or decrease the year another method  add modify line like below    lt  PHP     now     new DateTime     now- gt modify  -1 years      or  1 or  5 years    echo  now- gt format  Y        and here again For 4 digit   Y   for 2 digit   y     gt

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lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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year   date  quot Y quot   strtotime  yourDateVar

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best shortcode for this section    lt    date  Y      gt

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lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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http   us2 php net date  echo date  Y

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If your server supports Short Tags  or you use PHP 5 4  you can use    lt   date  Y    gt

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lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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use a PHP function which is just called date     It takes the current date and then you provide a format to it  and the format is just going to be Y  Capital Y is going to be a four digit year    lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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Here s what I do     lt  php echo date  d-m-Y     gt    below is a bit of explanation of what it does    d   day m   month Y   year   Y will gives you four digit  e g  1990  and y for two digit  e g  90

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My way to show the copyright  That keeps on updating automatically   lt p class  text-muted credit  gt Copyright  amp copy       lt  php          copyYear   2017     Set your website start date          curYear   date  Y       Keeps the second year updated         echo  copyYear      copyYear     curYear     -     curYear              gt    lt  p gt        It will output the results as  copyright   2017     if  copyYear is 2017  copyright   2017-201x      if  copyYear is not equal to Current Year

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My super lazy version of showing a copyright line  that automatically stays updated    amp copy   lt  php   copyYear   2008    curYear   date  Y     echo  copyYear      copyYear     curYear     -     curYear          gt  Me  Inc    This year  2008   it will say       copy  2008 Me  Inc    Next year  it will say       copy  2008-2009 Me  Inc    and forever stay updated with the current year     Or  PHP 5 3 0   a compact way to do it using an anonymous function so you don t have variables leaking out and don t repeat code constants    amp copy    lt  php call user func function  y   c date  Y   echo  y    y   c   -   c        2008     gt   Me  Inc

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If your server supports Short Tags  or you use PHP 5 4  you can use    lt   date  Y    gt

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You can use either date or strftime  In this case I d say it doesn t matter as a year is a year  no matter what  unless there s a locale that formats the year differently    For example    lt  php echo date  Y      gt    On a side note  when formatting dates in PHP it matters when you want to format your date in a different locale than your default  If so  you have to use setlocale and strftime  According to the php manual on date      To format dates in other languages    you should use the setlocale   and   strftime    functions instead of   date      From this point of view  I think it would be best to use strftime as much as possible  if you even have a remote possibility of having to localize your application  If that s not an issue  pick the one you like best

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Print current month with M  day with D and year with Y   lt  php echo date  quot M D Y quot      gt

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My super lazy version of showing a copyright line  that automatically stays updated    amp copy   lt  php   copyYear   2008    curYear   date  Y     echo  copyYear      copyYear     curYear     -     curYear          gt  Me  Inc    This year  2008   it will say       copy  2008 Me  Inc    Next year  it will say       copy  2008-2009 Me  Inc    and forever stay updated with the current year     Or  PHP 5 3 0   a compact way to do it using an anonymous function so you don t have variables leaking out and don t repeat code constants    amp copy    lt  php call user func function  y   c date  Y   echo  y    y   c   -   c        2008     gt   Me  Inc

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With PHP heading in a more object-oriented direction  I m surprised nobody here has referenced the built-in DateTime class    now   new DateTime     year    now- gt format  Y      or one-liner with class member access on instantiation  php  5 4     year    new DateTime - gt format  Y

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For 4 digit representation    lt  php echo date  Y      gt    2 digit representation    lt  php echo date  y      gt    Check the php documentation for more info  https   secure php net manual en function date php

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Get full Year used     lt  php      echo  curr year   date  Y       it will display full year ex  2017   gt    Or get only two digit of year used like this     lt  php      echo  curr year   date  y       it will display short 2 digit year ex  17   gt

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If you are using the Carbon PHP API extension for DateTime  you can achieve it easy    lt  php echo Carbon  now  - gt year    gt

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use a PHP date   function   and the format is just going to be Y  Capital Y is going to be a four digit year    lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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use a PHP date   function   and the format is just going to be Y  Capital Y is going to be a four digit year    lt  php echo date  Y      gt

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BTW    there are a few proper ways how to display site copyright  Some people have tendency to make things redundant i e   Copyright    have both the same meaning  The important copyright parts are     Symbol  Year  Author Owner and Rights statement          Using PHP   HTML     lt p id  copyright  gt  amp copy   lt  php echo date  Y      gt  Company Name All Rights Reserved lt  p gt    or   lt p id  copyright  gt  amp copy   lt  php echo  2010-  date  Y      gt  Company Name All Rights Reserved lt  p

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To get the current year using PHP   s date function  you can pass in the    Y    format character like so    Getting the current year using   PHP s date function   year   date  quot Y quot    echo  year     Getting the current year using   PHP s date function   year   date  quot Y quot    echo  year   The example above will print out the full 4-digit representation of the current year  If you only want to retrieve the 2-digit format  then you can use the lowercase    y    format character   year   date  quot y quot    echo  year  1 2  year   date  quot y quot    echo  year  The snippet above will print out 20 instead of 2020  or 19 instead of 2019  etc

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http   us2 php net date  echo date  Y

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My way to show the copyright  That keeps on updating automatically   lt p class  text-muted credit  gt Copyright  amp copy       lt  php          copyYear   2017     Set your website start date          curYear   date  Y       Keeps the second year updated         echo  copyYear      copyYear     curYear     -     curYear              gt    lt  p gt        It will output the results as  copyright   2017     if  copyYear is 2017  copyright   2017-201x      if  copyYear is not equal to Current Year

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lt  php  time now mktime date  h   5 date  i   30 date  s      dateTime   date  d m Y   h i s A   time now    echo  dateTime    gt

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This one gives you the local time    year   date  Y       2008   And this one UTC    year   gmdate  Y       2008

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You can use either date or strftime  In this case I d say it doesn t matter as a year is a year  no matter what  unless there s a locale that formats the year differently    For example    lt  php echo date  Y      gt    On a side note  when formatting dates in PHP it matters when you want to format your date in a different locale than your default  If so  you have to use setlocale and strftime  According to the php manual on date      To format dates in other languages    you should use the setlocale   and   strftime    functions instead of   date      From this point of view  I think it would be best to use strftime as much as possible  if you even have a remote possibility of having to localize your application  If that s not an issue  pick the one you like best

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echo date  Y   gives you current year  and this will update automatically since date   give us the current date

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strftime   Y      I love strftime   It s a great function for grabbing recombining chunks of dates times    Plus it respects locale settings which the date function doesn t do

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lt  php date default timezone set  Asia Kolkata     gt  lt   date  Y     gt    You can use this in footer sections to get dynamic copyright year

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best shortcode for this section    lt    date  Y      gt

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print date  Y      For more information  check date   function documentation  https   secure php net manual en function date php

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Get full Year used     lt  php      echo  curr year   date  Y       it will display full year ex  2017   gt    Or get only two digit of year used like this     lt  php      echo  curr year   date  y       it will display short 2 digit year ex  17   gt

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lt  php echo date  Y      gt    This code should do

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This one gives you the local time    year   date  Y       2008   And this one UTC    year   gmdate  Y       2008

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This one gives you the local time    year   date  Y       2008   And this one UTC    year   gmdate  Y       2008

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Just write   date  Y      A full numeric representation of a year  4 digits              Examples  1999 or 2003   Or   date  y       A two digit representation of a year     Examples  99 or 03   And  echo  this value

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in my case the copyright notice in the footer of a wordpress web site needed updating  thought simple  but involved a step or more thann anticipated   Open footer php in your theme s folder   Locate copyright text  expected this to be all hard coded but found   lt div id  quot copyright quot  gt       lt  php the field  copyright disclaimer    options      gt   lt  div gt    Now we know the year is written somewhere in WordPress admin so locate that to delete the year written text  In WP-Admin  go to Options on the left main admin menu   Then on next page go to the tab Disclaimers   and near the top you will find Copyright year   DELETE the    symbol   year   the empty space following the year  then save your page with Update button at top-right of page   With text version of year now delete  we can go and add our year that updates automatically with PHP  Go back to chunk of code in STEP 2 found in footer php and update that to this   lt div id  quot copyright quot  gt       amp copy  lt  php echo date  quot Y quot      gt   lt  php the field  copyright disclaimer    options      gt   lt  div gt    Done  Just need to test to ensure changes have taken effect as expected    this might not be the same case for many  however we ve come across this pattern among quite a number of our client sites and thought it would be best to document here

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Just write   date  Y      A full numeric representation of a year  4 digits              Examples  1999 or 2003   Or   date  y       A two digit representation of a year     Examples  99 or 03   And  echo  this value

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For 4 digit representation    lt  php echo date  Y      gt    2 digit representation    lt  php echo date  y      gt    Check the php documentation for more info  https   secure php net manual en function date php

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http   us2 php net date  echo date  Y

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With PHP heading in a more object-oriented direction  I m surprised nobody here has referenced the built-in DateTime class    now   new DateTime     year    now- gt format  Y      or one-liner with class member access on instantiation  php  5 4     year    new DateTime - gt format  Y

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This one gives you the local time    year   date  Y       2008   And this one UTC    year   gmdate  Y       2008

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print date  Y      For more information  check date   function documentation  https   secure php net manual en function date php

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