Displaying shortcode in footer

Question

Using SMOF as a backend admin and trying to include a shortcode in the text field for inclusion in the footer.

I am generaing the shortcode as

// Add Shortcode
function copyright_shortcode() {
    // Code
    return '<?php echo date("Y") ?>';
}
add_shortcode( 'copyright', 'copyright_shortcode' );

and calling the data from the SMOF options panel as so

<?php global $data; echo do_shortcode($data['footer_text']); ?>

The footer is generating the text from the field however, it is putting the shortcode data in <!-- -->.

Answer 1

Your shortcode function is all wrong, should be:

function copyright_shortcode() {
    return date("Y");
}