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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PHP
PHP is no longer central to my day‑to‑day stack, but it still appears in the seams of older web platforms. This small category records the pragmatic cases where server‑side PHP and static front‑end output have to coexist, without pretending it is a current specialism.
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.