PHP Countdown

vip26

09-18-2005, 02:48 AM

Hello I have a script that I found that grabs server time and then countdowns to the endtime (sept 20th in the script below) and when the endtime arrives it says Expired. Currently the way this script works is every 72 hours I have to go and add 3 days to the endtime to keep it running if I want it to countdown again. Question is: When it reaches Expired, How can I have the script wait 5 Mins and add 3 days to the endtime and in theroy, start another 72 hour countdown again! Without having to matain it anymore.

Thanks ahead of time.
- Jason

<?php

$endtime = "September 20th 2005";
$enddate = strtotime($endtime);
$off_d = date("d",$enddate);
$off_m = date("m",$enddate);
$off_y = date("y",$enddate);
$off_th = date("H",$enddate);
$off_tm = date("i",$enddate);
$off_ts = date("s",$enddate);
$curdate = time();

$now_d = date("d",$curdate);
$now_m = date("m",$curdate);
$now_y = date("y",$curdate);
$now_th = date("H",$curdate);
$now_tm = date("i",$curdate);
$now_ts = date("s",$curdate);
?>

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
now_d = <? echo $now_d; ?>;
now_m = <? echo $now_m; ?>;
now_y = <? echo $now_y; ?>;
now_th = <? echo $now_th; ?>;
now_tm = <? echo $now_tm; ?>;
now_ts = <? echo $now_ts; ?>;
off_y = <? echo $off_y; ?>;
off_m = <? echo $off_m; ?>;
off_d = <? echo $off_d; ?>;
off_th = <? echo $off_th; ?>;
off_tm = <? echo $off_tm; ?>;
off_ts = <? echo $off_ts; ?>;
dateNow = new Date(parseInt(now_y) + 2000,parseInt(now_m) - 1,now_d,now_th,now_tm,now_ts);
dateFuture = new Date(parseInt(off_y) + 2000,parseInt(off_m) - 1,off_d,off_th,off_tm,off_ts);
amount = dateFuture - dateNow;
amount2 = amount;

function update_time() {

amount = amount2 - 1000;
amount2 = amount;
if(amount < 0){
set_inner('countdown', 'Expired!');
// window.location.reload();
}else{
hrs=0;
mins=0;
secs=0;
amount = Math.floor(amount/1000);
hrs=parseInt(Math.floor(amount/3600));
amount=amount % 3600;
mins=parseInt(Math.floor(amount/60));
if (hrs < 10) hrs = '0'+hrs;
if (mins < 10) mins = '0'+mins;
amount=amount % 60;
secs=parseInt(Math.floor(amount));
if (secs < 10) secs = '0'+secs;
set_inner('countdown', hrs+':'+mins+':'+secs);
}
setTimeout('update_time()', 1000);
}
function set_inner(name, value, add){
var elem;
if (document.getElementById) elem = document.getElementById(name);
if (document.all) elem = document.all[name];
if (elem && add) elem.innerHTML += value;
if (elem && !add) elem.innerHTML = value;
}
</script>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=97 border=0 style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold">
<TBODY>

<SCRIPT>update_time();</SCRIPT>

<TR>
<TD align=middle style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: bold" valign="top"><SPAN
id=countdown><font size="4">TIME</font></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></td>
</body>
</html>

Here is a link to the working countown http://vip26.com/count.php

vip26

09-18-2005, 05:43 AM

Ok, How do I change the:

$endtime = "September 20th 2005"; on every 3rd day?

by using

$next_thrid_day = time() + (2 * 24 * 60 * 60);

date('F jS, Y', $next_thrid_day)

vip26

09-18-2005, 06:23 AM

Or is this gonna be easier running a root cronjob on the server every 3 days to edit the date in the php file and is that possibile?

pjleonhardt

09-18-2005, 08:16 AM

Ok, How do I change the:
$endtime = "September 20th 2005"; on every 3rd day?

by using

$next_thrid_day = time() + (2 * 24 * 60 * 60);

date('F jS, Y', $next_thrid_day)

That really won't work, since next time the script is run, it wont remeber that you have set the the date, as the next third day...

I.e if I did

$x = 2;
...

$x =5;

next time I ran the script, it would start at x = 2 again.
(I know, that is a bad explanation, it's 3AM here, so pardon it, please)

My suggestion would to hold the date in an external txt file.

I.e.

$handle = fopen("date.txt", "r");
$endtime = fread($handle);
$enddate = strtotime($endtime);
...

Above might need tweaking, again, its 3AM.

And then at the end of the script

if amount < 0

overwrite the txt file with the next third day..

Understand? Or should I clarify once I sleep? :)

raf

09-18-2005, 10:53 AM

i'm not entirely sure it can be done completely automatic without a cron-job.
you could store the enddate in a database or textfile, and have the script read it in from there. You should then have a cron that runs every day on midnight and that will then reset the date if the stored date is passed.
on top of the enddate, you should have a begindate OR you should run a datediff between the current datetime and the enddate to see if the 5 minutes periode is already passed.

frankly i'd be using a db and populate a table every 10 year or so that has 2 columns: begin_datetime and end_datetime.
at the start of your script, you then just ru a select like
SELECT enddatetimeFROM mytable WHERE Now() BETWEEN begin_datetime AND end_datetime
If no record is returned, then you're in the 5 minutes timeout. Else you get one record with your enddate.

vip26

09-18-2005, 10:58 AM

Thanks!! , I just got the script to pull the enddate from date.txt, now I am gonna work on it some more. I am gonna explore on how to overwrite it on every 3rd day.

- Jason

raf

09-18-2005, 11:10 AM

that's just

if (strtotime($endtime) < time()){
$endtime = $endtime + (3*24*60*60);
// and write it to your file;
}

but it's a lott more efficinet to use a db and prepopulate it ...

vip26

09-18-2005, 12:53 PM

Thanks for everybodys help, I think I got it now. I managed to get a small script to overwrite date.txt with a (future date of 3 days away) anytime that php file gets accessed by anyone.

I will use CRON to access that php file every 3 days at the right time Via Wget command, I just need to sync it and its finished.

Thanks

photoduel

05-10-2006, 04:32 AM

i found a countdown timer written in java script that i like.
here is an example of it on my website www.photoduel.com (http://www.photoduel.com), just click on one of the category tabs to see it.

here is the code as of now.

function CD_T(id,e){var n=new Date();
CD_D(+n,id,e);
setTimeout("CD_T('"+id+"',"+e+")",1100-n.getMilliseconds())};

function CD_D(n,id,e){var ms=e-n;
if(ms<=0) ms*=-1;var d=Math.floor(ms/864E5);
ms-=d*864E5;var h=Math.floor(ms/36E5);
ms-=h*36E5;
var m=Math.floor(ms/6E4);
ms-=m*6E4;
var s=Math.floor(ms/1E3);
CD_OBJS[id].innerHTML=d+" day"+(d==1?" ":"s ")+CD_ZP(h)+"h "+CD_ZP(m)+"m "+CD_ZP(s)+"s"};

function CD_ZP(i){return(i<10?"0"+i:i)};

function CD_Init(){var pref="countdown";
var objH=1;
if(document.getElementById||document.all){for(var i=1;objH;++i){var id=pref+i;objH=document.getElementById?document.getElementById(id):document.all[id];
if(objH&&(typeof objH.innerHTML)!='undefined'){var s=objH.innerHTML;var dt=CD_Parse(s);
if(!isNaN(dt)){CD_OBJS[id]=objH;
CD_T(id,dt.valueOf());
if(objH.style){objH.style.visibility="visible"}}
else {objH.innerHTML=s+"<a href=\"http://andrewu.co.uk/clj/countdown/\" title=\"Countdown Error:Invalid date format used,check documentation (see link)\">*</a>"}}}}};

function CD_Parse(strDate){var objReDte=/(\d{4})\-(\d{1,2})\-(\d{1,2})\s+(\d{1,2}):(\d{1,2}):(\d{0,2})\s+GMT([+\-])(\d{1,2}):?(\d{1,2})?/;
if(strDate.match(objReDte)){var d=new Date(0);
d.setUTCFullYear(+RegExp.$1,+RegExp.$2-1,+RegExp.$3);
d.setUTCHours(+RegExp.$4,+RegExp.$5,+RegExp.$6);
var tzs=(RegExp.$7=="-"?-1:1);
var tzh=+RegExp.$8;
var tzm=+RegExp.$9;
if(tzh){d.setUTCHours(d.getUTCHours()-tzh*tzs)}if(tzm){d.setUTCMinutes(d.getUTCMinutes()-tzm*tzs)};
return d}else {return NaN}};var CD_OBJS=new Object();
if(window.attachEvent){window.attachEvent('onload',CD_Init)}
else if(window.addEventListener){window.addEventListener("load",CD_Init,false)}
else {window.onload=CD_Init}

i would like to have this automatically run 5 days, then restart again running for 2 days, and repeat this over and over.

right now, this script gets the date from the code on the webpage and displays the countdown till the date specified below:
<span class="style24" id="countdown1"> 2006-05-10 00:00:00 GMT-04:00</span></td>

i was thinking of editing the javascript to look to my database for the new date, but i dont know how to do this.

any ideas?