How do you update a copyright date at the bottom of each page on a site?

[wienerdog]

What's the most efficient way to update the copyright line at the bottom of every page of a web site? Do I need to work with each HTML file, or have most of you used frames to have the same HTML file at the bottom of every other page?

[EC]

don't have time to do too much googling, but there are scripts out there. I haven't even looked at this, just clicked on one of the links from the search results.

http://codehouse.com/javascript/articles/copyright/

[ecsyle]

I use php

<?=date('Y')?>

that will print 2006

But, to change every static page, perhaps a global search and replace?

[Ryan8720]

Use PHP includes for the footer and then for the date use:

<? print(date("Y")); ?>

[Eraser Nubbin]

Use templates before you build the site?

[Bear]

bbedit does search and replace throughout site documents that haven't been built with templates

[jlknauff]

so does dreamweaver

[Ryan8720]

As does TopStyle and just about everything else.

[zielak]

I have a footer in separate html file and I'm using <?php include(" ****** "); ?> so it's very easy and fast to update.