Help required displaying current date on actinic web pages?

[skinnybloke]

Hi - is there a way to extract the date from your PC to display it on the pages as the current year for a copyright notice.

I normally use the following for non-actinic sites but my understanding is that actinic perl scripts will not process PHP code.

Copyright &copy; 'Company Name' 2003 - <?php echo date("Y"); // displays the current year ?>. All rights reserved.

[wjcampbe]

standard site bottom left - Actinic already does this. You just need to add your static bit 2003 - into the existing Actinic code.

[leehack]

If you are wanting the date to be dynamic if i understand correctly, so that when a new year is upon us the copyright year changes accordingly, you could always use javascript. There are hundreds of free scripts doing this available on the web.

[skinnybloke]

Hi - I had a look at the Actinic default site design and the text "2006" is hard coded in as the date.

Looks like it will have to be Javascript.

Thanks for the replies.

[NormanRouxel]

Putting

<actinic:block php="true">echo date('Y');</actinic:block>

into a Layout will display the current year.

Processing is done when the pages are built and doesn't need PHP on your server.

[skinnybloke]

Hi Norman - that is exactly what I was looking for.

Cheers

[Donald Gray]

I have posted a page showing some dynamic webclocks that I designed some time back.

Have a look at:
http://www.yandles.co.uk/webclocks.html


If that is the sort of thing you want, I can alter the 'rollover' to read anything within the width of the clock. Will take me a few days though...

The background colour is user definable. The font colour is fixed but I can make 'em in any colour.

Email me at
donald (at) websilk (dot) co (dot) uk

You can see one with the background tailored to the page colour on the home page of my websilk address below...

[skinnybloke]

Hi Donald - thanks for the offer but Norman's solution gives me everything I need.

[Donald Gray]

Hi Donald - thanks for the offer but Norman's solution gives me everything I need.

no problem...