First of all try to collect the necessary information which are important to display the actual month and highlight the actual day. Besides this we want to display the actual month and year informations as well. To do this we need 3 special days informations:
The actual day
The first day of the actual month
The last day of the actual month
it's nice to have your website say "last modified $date" with $date being the last time the page was, modified. this can be done in many ways, here are a few ways in perl, javascript and of course, PHP.
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