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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.eduJust 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;
?>
echo $top_text ?>
echo $days ?> |
: |
echo $hours ?> |
: |
echo $mins ?> |
Days |
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Hrs |
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Mins |
echo $bottom_text ?> It may look like there are extra short tags ?> ');. Way too messy and time consuming.
Essentially, by placing a ?> at the beginning and a , thereby allowing you to define where YOU want your PHP and HTML and making troubleshooting 10x easier.
Hope this helps. Sorry for getting off topic towards the end there.
James
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