Increased demand for Open Source CMS website projects has required us to think of new ways to keep the information stored on our server neatly organized.

There were two wild beasts we had to tame:

1. The ever growing list of databases with cryptic names
2. The long list of sub-domains also with cryptic names. For example: wp011510trench.revision-technology.com

This is a brief post that will explain how to keep the copyright year in your footer automatically updated. This can be accomplished in a number of ways, but this post deals with how to achieve this using PHP.

I'll also show where to add this snippet so that it works in your Joomla!^TM and Worpdress templates. Detailed information on the PHP date function can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php .