i'm looking for a code that updates a website. instead of everytime i login to update something and change the thing to "updated 5/9/08" or something like that, is there a code i can insert that it just updates each day.

so tomorrow it will say "updated 5/10/08"

i was told that there it should auto update everytime i login, but it doesnt. just the certain page is "updated" and it doesnt even say it on that page.

thanks

5/9/2008 12:08:06 PM

if you aren't really performing updates and just want the time stamp to say the current date just cheat and use php or javascript to output the current date.

5/9/2008 12:09:09 PM

in php, you would just put this in your page.

echo date('n/j/y'); 

5/9/2008 12:12:27 PM

well the thing is i have actually been updating it for the past like 3 weeks.

and probably for the next 2-3 weeks to come.
^,^^ sound like a good idea

5/9/2008 12:19:07 PM

i used something like this several years ago to display the ACTUAL last file update date/time. not sure if it's still a well accepted way to do it, but here ya go

http://dionysia.org/software/lastupdated/ssi-method.html

5/9/2008 12:27:15 PM

Quote :

"echo date('n/j/y'); "

5/9/2008 12:40:21 PM

^^i used to do that back in the day when i did web design... by far the easiest way to update the "updated last" date.

5/9/2008 12:41:49 PM

ok, kinda new here at this stuff.

so all i type in is echo date('n/j/y');

im using joomla BTW

5/9/2008 12:44:34 PM

well with a CMS it's a bit different

is it a field you change? or what?

easiest way would be to edit the template your site uses and place something in the footer

echo date('n/j/y'); will echo the current date

if it's not already inside php brackets, do the following:

5/9/2008 12:46:08 PM

nice

thanks all

5/9/2008 12:54:53 PM

nice. anyway to do it like weekly, instead of every day. every day doesnt hurt. but weekly is more practicle

7/15/2008 7:56:07 AM

echo date('n/j/y', strtotime('last monday')); // outputs 7/14/08 as of this post

substitute 'monday' for whatever day you want this to be updated on. i'm thinking this might break if it is the actual day of the 'update' so a cheap way to get around that would be:


if (date('w') == 1)
{
echo date('n/j/y');
}
else
{
echo date('n/j/y', strtotime('last monday'));
}


or you can do some shorthand:


echo date('w') == 1 ? date('n/j/y') : date('n/j/y', strtotime('last monday'));


7/15/2008 2:05:11 PM