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Seven Skins Seven Skins is offline 12-12-2011, 11:00 PM

In this tutorial I will tell you to edit the footer of your vBulletin forum so that YEAR in the footer changes automatically so that you can to New Year Party on December 31 instead of editing your footer copyright notice.

It is only four step process, see the screenshots below.

Login to AdminCP and go to (Step 1 and 2) Settings > Options > Site name / URL / Contact Details and scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will see "Copyright Text" field. Edit the code below for your site and copy and paste (Step 3) it in the "Copyright Text" field. Click Save (Step 4).



PS. Do not forget to edit the text in the red color in the code below.




Code:
Copyright &copy; <a href="http://www.sevenskins.com/">Seven Skins</a> 2008 - <script type="text/javascript">d = new Date();y = d.getFullYear();document.write(y);</script>




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Old 12-15-2011, 05:12 AM
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Great!!! saves me some time editing the copyright notice each time and every new year

Thanks
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Old 12-21-2011, 03:22 PM
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Hot damn. Why did I not do this sooner???
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Old 12-22-2011, 04:49 PM
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Why not just use this for the year?
Code:
<?php echo date('Y');?>
Code:
Copyright &copy; <a href="http://www.sevenskins.com/">Seven Skins</a> 2008 - <?php echo date('Y');?>
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Old 12-23-2011, 10:29 AM
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^ PHP doesnot work in the copyright text field.
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Old 12-29-2011, 02:33 AM
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Thanks for sharing this
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Old 12-29-2011, 06:42 AM
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Quote:
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^ PHP doesnot work in the copyright text field.
I found that out the hard way.

Thanks for the tip. I was wondering how to do that without using PHP code in a hook.
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Old 12-30-2011, 04:14 AM
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Great tip...it work perfectly the first time....unlike when I hack together something myself.

Thanks and happy New Year!

Richard
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thanks for sharing.
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Thanks its working.
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