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;
?>
 echo $top_text ?>
  
    
      echo $days ?>
      :
      echo $hours ?>
      :
      echo $mins ?>
    
    
      Days
      |
      Hrs
      |
      Mins
  
  echo $bottom_text ?>