How to get date from server

Question

hello, i am new to coldfusion, and i am trying to figure out
how to write a cfm function that calls the date from the server (I
want the copyright date in my site's footer to update
automatically).
in php, i wrote this as:
<?php
$curr_year = date('Y', mktime());
?>
Copyright © 1999
<?php
echo ( $curr_year > 1999) ? "-".$curr_year : '';
?>
however, i can't seem to include a php file in a cfm page.
How to do that would be my second question--
thank you for your help!

Answer 1

Or to more closely copy your PHP function.
<cfset curr_year = year(now())>
Copyright &copy;
<cfif curr_year GT 1999>- <cfoutput>#curr_year#</cfoutput></cfif>
OR
Copyright &copy; <cfoutput>#iif(year(now()) GT 1999,DE("- " & year(now())),DE(""))#
OR
<cfscript>
documentWrite("Copyright &copy;");
if (year(now() > 1999) {
  documentWrite("-" & year(now());
Among other methods.