simple countdown script needed

[affiliatemarketingltd]

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hey guys

ok im pullin my hair out over this

anyone able to knock up a quick countdown script

basically the page would effectivly refresh and then decrease the seconds , minutes , hours as needed

ive tried it but cant seem to get it to work

there would be 3 variables

hrs , min , sec
these are initially defined by the values in the database
so lets assume
$hrs = ' 08';
$min = '47';
$sec = '03';


now what i tried to do is to check on reload to see if sec == 0 then min - 1 then set sec to 59
e.g.

$sec = $sec - '1';
if($sec == '00'){
$sec = '59';
$min - 1;
}
if($min == '00'){
$hrs -1;
$min = '59';
}
 if($hrs== '00' && $min == '00' && $sec == '00') { 
do this code here 
} 

im also using a simple meta refresh at the top of the page

anyone able to shed some light on thisannoying situation

[mrbishi]

Hi,

This appears to be what you are after, all it needs is a little editing of the output to make the countdown look how you want. Also would probably be pretty easy to convert it into an ajax call that would update within the page without the need for refresh. Allowing you to have a live countdown changing in front of peoples eyes as if by magic!

WLScripting.com Countdown to a time

[affiliatemarketingltd]

must be daft lol but i cant see where to define teh time i want it to countdown too

[mrbishi]

you'd put a bit of php in your page something like this:

<?php

$testTime = strtotime("25 December 2008");
echo timeLeft($testTime).'<br>';
?>

or you could use mktime instead of strtotime if you wanted a more specific date to count down to e.g.

<?php
$testTime = mktime(23, 59, 59, 12, 24, 2008);
echo timeLeft($testTime).'<br>';
?>

mktime variable order: hour, minute, second, month, day, year

[affiliatemarketingltd]

ahh cheers

was havin a dumb moment then

[affiliatemarketingltd]

getting

Warning: Missing argument 1 for timeLeft(), called in D:\wamp\www\countdown.php on line 41 and defined in D:\wamp\www\countdown.php on line 4

$theTime = mktime(20, 01, 00, 11, 12, 2008);

function timeLeft($theTime) {

  $now = strtotime("now");
  $timeLeft = $theTime - $now;
  
  if($timeLeft > 0) {
    $days = floor($timeLeft/60/60/24);
    $hours = $timeLeft/60/60%24;
    $mins = $timeLeft/60%60;
    $secs = $timeLeft%60;
    
    if($days) {
      $theText = $days . " Day(s)";
      if($hours) {
        $theText .= ", " .$hours . " Hour(s) ";
      }
    } elseif($hours) {
      $theText = $hours . " Hour(s)";
      if($mins) {
        $theText .= ", " .$mins . " Minute(s) ";
      }
    } elseif($mins) {
      $theText = $mins . " Minute(s)";
      if($secs) {
        $theText .= ", " .$secs . " Second(s) ";
      }
    } elseif($secs) {
      $theText = $secs . " Second(s)";
    }
  } else {
    $theText = "The countdown is over!";
  }

  return $theText;
} 

[mrbishi]

No problem, im one permanent blonde moment

The issue you seem to be having is that you aren't passing $theTime to the timeLeft function. When you call timeLeft in your page you need to call it timeLeft($theTime).

or if you are doing this I have just noticed that you have a variable $timeLeft within your function timeLeft, this could potentially be causing a naming conflict so just in case I would change the variable within the function to something like $time_left.

Hope that helps.

[affiliatemarketingltd]

DOH !

yeah that was it lol

was calling timeLeft() instead of timeLeft($theTime)

in the words of del boy .. what a plonker !
you seem to know yoru stuff..

check out my other thread in the php help section .. you might be interested