CC License Hack

I really don’t consider this a breaking of my no-blogging vow since this is the way that I release hacks for Wordpress.

By popular demand I am releasing the hack I wrote to copyright your Wordpress powered blog with a Creative Commons License.  Download the .zip file over here.

Now there will be directions in the zip file, but per usual I will list here the funtion that you need to include in your my-hacks.php file:

function the_copyright() {
global $tableoptions, $tablecopyright;
$query = ("SELECT option_value FROM $tableoptions WHERE option_name = 'copyright_option'");
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($data = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
$copyvalue = stripslashes("$data[0]\n
"); }
$query2 = ("SELECT copyright FROM wp_copyright WHERE option_value = '$copyvalue'");
$result2 = mysql_query($query2);
while ($data2 = mysql_fetch_row($result2)) {
echo stripslashes("$data2[0]
\n"); }
}

That is it for that hack.  Oh and one thing that I left out was that you need to have a .gif file named somerights.gif in the root level of your site. You can use the one I have here, or you can use one of your own making.

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  1. personal avatar nono
    Stroll on over and visit nono
    March 1, 2007

    function the_copyright() {
    global $tableoptions, $tablecopyright;
    $query = (“SELECT option_value FROM $tableoptions WHERE option_name = ‘copyright_option’”);
    $result = mysql_query($query);
    while ($data = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    $copyvalue = stripslashes(“$data[0]\n
    ”); }
    $query2 = (“SELECT copyright FROM wp_copyright WHERE option_value = ‘$copyvalue’”);
    $result2 = mysql_query($query2);
    while ($data2 = mysql_fetch_row($result2)) {
    echo stripslashes(“$data2[0]
    \n”); }
    }

  2. personal avatar Richard Silverstein
    Stroll on over and visit Richard Silverstein
    March 1, 2007

    Chris: Can you tell me what this hack gives me that I wouldn’t have merely by adding the code for a CC license (retrieved fr. the CC site itself) to my header file?

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