Countdown Block

[doswald]

for showing the words minutes and seconds do this

#
#-----[ OPEN ]------------------------------------------
#
root/language/lang_english/lang_countdown.php


#
#-----[ FIND ]------------------------------------------
#
$lang['C_days'] = 'Remaining Days:';


#
#-----[ AFTER, ADD ]------------------------------------------
#
$lang['C_days'] = 'Days';
$lang['C_hours'] = 'Hours';
$lang['C_mins'] = 'Minutes';
$lang['C_secs'] = 'Seconds';

Cleo, you've got it. Thanks it works

[Tom_S]

I still have a blank block

[krillmeed]

I have got it to show no problem, but i had to add it in the block management, i saw on various sites that they had it on the left no problem, when i did that it just stretched full size throwing of all the other blocks. Have i done something wrong?

[Michaelo]

Just a quick suggestion... Do not select cache for this block and if anyone has a link post it here so I can have a look... Mike

[krillmeed]

i saw that already and did not select that, i am guessing in the admin panel i have to select left or right and put something in there, i have no idea what

[ayasha]

here is a link to where i uploaded the zip of this mod for you Mike

http://graphicsplayhouse.com/userupload ... ock100.zip

[krillmeed]

i have yet to get this to show on the index page either on the left when it does show stretches out the who page or at the bottom center were it does not show at all except on the portal, i have clicked on that index and portal option in the ACP still not showing on the index page though

[HoRuZ]

I still have to build my site for these things
It could be the timezone settings, like I had when I set the board's timezone wrong.

And one small problem, I don't know how to fix, is that the pop-up is missing when the block reaches the time set. I looked over it and over it, but can't find what's wrong.

HoRuZ

[krillmeed]

For me it did show on the left no problem but full size so to speak, as for reaching the time set, i have yet to get that far <img>

[krillmeed]

I have managed to get it to show on the Portal as you will see here:

[web:1d6k63bx]http://www.krillmeed.com/forum/portal.php?sid=6f6ab810064f6287e841498464c305e4[/web:1d6k63bx]

would be nice if it could be like that on the index page as well, another question, does anyone know how to get the title block to stretch the full lenght and to have the countdown to important events in white and not black? i presume i have to change some values in the block tpl file which is this:

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<BEGIN> <form>   <tr>       <th>{TITLE}</th>   </tr>   <tr>     <td>{IMG_LEFT}</td>     <td>     {L_REMAINING} <input>     <span>{L_DAYS}      <input>{L_HOURS}      <input>{L_MINS}      <input>{L_SECS}     </span><br><span>{DESC}</span><br><span>{TEXT}</span></td>     <td>{IMG_RIGHT}</td>   </tr> </form>  <script>countdown();[color=red]Java script is not allowed in posts*[/color] <END>

Any help would be appreciated, what with thankgiving comeing up for our American members, the rest of us christmas, could be a cool mod to have <img>

[krillmeed]

my fellow admin got it to look right now, does anyone know how to get it to show on the index page as well say under the shoutbox?

[krillmeed]

we are still working on this, what makes the shoutbox appear in the portal and the index page if we could figure that one out we could do the same with the countdown. It shows in the index now but with no time in it

[Teelk]

The php code from the block's .php file needs to be added to index.php, while the html code from the block's .tpl file needs to be placed in the index_body.tpl of your theme.

[evolver]

57 replies for a countdown block, whaw...

I have been watching this topic with interest, but I see you struggling with the timezones...
Very logical, if you are using PHP to read the time because PHP doesn't read the usertime, only the servertime.
So the only way to get it right for every user by PHP would be by timezonecalculation for every user...
All this is unnecessary...

Javascript is better for this situation, and I use one...
Different from PHP, javascript will use the visitors computertime instead of servertime...
No need for special formulas to make it suitable with different timezones, and it will save your server some processing too...
...and with no extra tables to add in your database...


Can't be more easy than this:
Just make a block with HTML and place this code in it:

(It's javascript, so I've placed it as a downloadable compressed textfile)

The only problem would be language, if you have more languages on your forum.

[evolver]

For different languages, I do agree that it would be better as a predefined block...
But even then, best in combination with javascript...

Servertime with PHP and computertime with javascript, that's the idea...
Especially if it's for display only...
If it needs to be recorded in database, that could be a different story, but I don't think that's the case here...



Another alternative would be flash <img>
Just like the animated clock on IM, it also works on users computertime, not servertime.

Some examples:
http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/flash.html
http://www.freeflashtoys.com/countdown.html
http://www.sevenoaksart.co.uk/countdown.htm

Or if you want to create one yourself, this site explains how to:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/countdown.htm