It's important to keep an updated copyright in the footer of your website. You want your website to be up to date, but you don’t want to have to manually change the copyright date every year. There are multiple ways of pulling this off, including Javascript and PHP. I'll show you the PHP method here, and give you the code you need for your website or blog.

If you’re going to use PHP on a website the server needs to be running PHP right? Well duuh! If you work on a variety of websites for a lot of clients, you’re going to deal with different hosts and servers. Before you hook up a form to PHP or whatever else you are planning on doing, you better make sure the server can run PHP if it isn’t. I'll show you how.