JMorris wrote:
Here's an amazingly simple PHP-based countdown timer I found. We chose to use this script over a Javascript version because we have a lot of dial-up visitors and adding more javascripts to the site was slowing it down.

Live demo (bottom-right block on homepage):http://cit.wvup.edu

Just paste the following code (exactly as shown) in a Custom PHP block and edit to suite:

?>
<?
// enter target date below like this: "January 2, 2001"
$target = "February 10, 2006";

// enter string of what this start date is. $top_text appears above the counter, $bottom_text displays below the counter
$top_text = "There are ";
$bottom_text = "until the last day to apply to graduate in May!";

//--------------------------
$now = strtotime ("now");
$then = strtotime ("$target");
$difference = $then - $now;
$num = $difference/86400;
$days = intval($num);
$num2 = ($num - $days)*24;
$hours = intval($num2);
$num3 = ($num2 - $hours)*60;
$mins = intval($num3);
$num4 = ($num3 - $mins)*60;
?>
<div style="font-weight:bold;" align="center"> <? echo $top_text ?><br />
  <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="color:#00CC00;font-size:10px;font-family:'Courier New', Courier, mono;border-top:2px solid #AAAAAA;border-right:2px solid #333333;border-bottom:2px solid #333333;border-left:2px solid #AAAAAA;background-color:#000;padding:0px;width:125px;">
    <tr align="center" valign="middle">
      <td><? echo $days ?></td>
      <td>:</td>
      <td><? echo $hours ?></td>
      <td>:</td>
      <td><? echo $mins ?></td>
    </tr>
    <tr align="center" valign="middle">
      <td>Days</td>
      <td>|</td>
      <td>Hrs</td>
      <td>|</td>
      <td>Mins</td>
  </table>
  <? echo $bottom_text ?> </div>
<?

James