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.
Articles
PHP
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. This is a topic I have worked with for many years, although it has not been one I have written about often. There are four articles collected here so far, which you can see and read below.
Staying Current: Automating Copyright Year Updates. 
Prepending PHP to a Page in Gatsby. Prepending PHP to a Page in Gatsby
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.
Automatically Generate urllist.txt from sitemap.xml. Automatically Generate
urllist.txtfromsitemap.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).
Get the Number of Years Between Two Dates with PHP and JavaScript. Get the Number of Years Between Two Dates with PHP and JavaScript
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.
