
Staying Current: Automating Copyright Year Updates
Automate copyright year updates across JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, PHP, and WordPress so footers do not go stale each January across stacks.
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Although solidly out of fashion now, PHP is a proper, general‑purpose, back‑end scripting language that is very well‑suited to web development.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about PHP. Although this is a topic I've been working with for many years, it's fair to say that I've not written about it often. I've only managed to publish four articles about it, which you can see and read below.

Automate copyright year updates across JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, PHP, and WordPress so footers do not go stale each January across stacks.

Need a little PHP inside a Gatsby build? This guide shows a pragmatic way to prepend server‑side code when a fully static approach is not enough.

urllist.txt from sitemap.xmlUsing PHP it is quick and easy to automatically generate your urllist.txt sitemap from your sitemap.xml file (for example, using gatsby‑plugin‑sitemap).
A common web development task: get the number of years between two dates. I discuss how to do this with PHP in the back‑end, or front‑end with JavaScript.