Comments on: Count Up "timer"

By: Crystal

Crystal — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I'd really like to see that PHP countup script…

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Crystal - it's on this site..
here

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks marc!! :o)

By: shelli

shelli — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

small code for countdown til christmas. I think its working properly on my site.

$day = 25; // Day of the countdown
$month = 12; // Month of the countdown
$year = 2002; // Year of the countdown

// mktime is the marked time, and time() is the current time.
$target = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year);
$diff = $target - time();

$days = ($diff - ($diff % 86400)) / 86400;
$diff = $diff - ($days * 86400);
$hours = ($diff - ($diff % 3600)) / 3600;
$diff = $diff - ($hours * 3600);
$minutes = ($diff - ($diff % 60)) / 60;
$diff = $diff - ($minutes * 60);
$seconds = ($diff - ($diff % 1)) / 1;

printf("There are $days days, $hours hours, $minutes minutes, $seconds seconds until Christmas");
?>

By: Tricia

Tricia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Gaaaaaaahh!!!!!!!! Neato trick, but I hate it!! Completely crashed my browser the first time out, can barely type this comment, every time the count moves, I get the wait cursor…those of us with slower processors (120 mhz here) have a really hard time with things like this. Guess I need to stay away until this scrolls off the screen lol!

By: wKen

wKen — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Just what I asked for. Thanks so much.

By: kristine

kristine — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

long ramble between work projects…
I read what you said, Lynda, just before I walked downstairs for breakfast, so I thought more about this on the way to work.

I've thought for a long time that i should have a good working knowledge of JavaScript mainly because I should be able to do dHTML. Because CSS+JavaScript is cool.

But ya know what else is cool? There isn't a fancy name (that I know of) for CSS+PHP, but when I think about it, I have done some pretty neato stuff with just a simple stylesheet and a bunch of PHP includes - my portal being a prime example.

So maybe instead of focusing my energies on JavaScript, I should be learning more PHP Not to say that I'll stop with JS - I'm using ImageReady-generated rollovers in a good portion of my graphic sets, and some dHTML scrollers…. but this thought came to me this morning, and I thought i'd share it

By: marc

marc — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

D'oh - should have read the description of the "clip" attribute:

This parameter specifies the clipping rectangle (viewable area) of the layer, which can be less than the width and height of the content of the layer. If the CLIP attribute is omitted, the clipping rectangle of a layer is the same size as the HTML content of the layer. A layer will expand to contain all of its content by default

By: Lynda

Lynda — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I like it on other people's sites, but I have reservations about adding it to mine. And since I don't like using it on my own site, I don't think I'll ever get inclined enough to LEARN it.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Javascript can do some pretty cool things. I still like it…

…however - you can't DEPEND on it. I remember hearing that a scary number of people surf with javascript turned OFF! DOH!

It would be a good learning experience to try and figure out how to do that timer in PHP… Maybe that'll be my diversion this weekend.