Re: [PHP-DB] Count down
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Frank McIsaac wrote: Hi all. I was wanting to make a page that takes a set date and counts down to zero displaying days, minutes, and seconds. Basically, I want it to count down from the current date and time until a future date and time is reached (ie. Sept. 30th is x days, y minutes, and z seconds away from right now). Is this possible? If so, how. Thanks for the help. $futuretime = strtotime(9/30/2003 12:00:00); $difftime = $futuretime - time(); $days = (int)($difftime/86400); $leftover = $difftime%86400; $minutes = (int)($leftover/1440); $leftover = $leftover%1440; $seconds = $leftover; printf(Future Time is %d day%s, %d minute%s, and %d second%s away from now., $days, $days==1?:s, $minutes, $minutes==1?:s, $seconds, $seconds==1?:s); Beckman --- Peter Beckman Internet Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ - PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP-DB] Count down
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Peter Beckman wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Frank McIsaac wrote: Hi all. I was wanting to make a page that takes a set date and counts down to zero displaying days, minutes, and seconds. Basically, I want it to count down from the current date and time until a future date and time is reached (ie. Sept. 30th is x days, y minutes, and z seconds away from right now). Is this possible? If so, how. Thanks for the help. $futuretime = strtotime(9/30/2003 12:00:00); $difftime = $futuretime - time(); $days = (int)($difftime/86400); $leftover = $difftime%86400; $minutes = (int)($leftover/1440); $leftover = $leftover%1440; Whoops. Change 1440 to 60 in the above two lines. $seconds = $leftover; printf(Future Time is %d day%s, %d minute%s, and %d second%s away from now., $days, $days==1?:s, $minutes, $minutes==1?:s, $seconds, $seconds==1?:s); Beckman --- Peter Beckman Internet Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.purplecow.com/ --- -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
