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Im creating a website for my brothers wedding. And so far all is going well. However, he wants a countdown to the wedding on the homepage;
Time left until the wedding: X months, X days, X hours.
I would preferebly like to do this using php, but would be open to other suggestions.
if you can help me with ideas for the coding, or just point me to relevant material, that would be useful.
The wedding is on Saturday 30th July.
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You can start and stop a timer in PHP using the microtime() function in PHP. The microtime() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to return the current Unix timestamp with microseconds.
$wedding = strtotime("2011-07-01 12:00:00+0400"); // or whenever the wedding is
$secondsLeft = $wedding - time();
$days = floor($secondsLeft / 60*60*24);
$hours = floor(($secondsLeft - $days*60*60*24) / 60*60);
echo "$days days and $hours hours left";
Code top by user Neil E. Pearson didn´t work, he forgot to write there the brackets (), working solution is:
$wedding = strtotime("2011-07-01 12:00:00+0400"); // or whenever the wedding is
$secondsLeft = $wedding - time();
$days = floor($secondsLeft / (60*60*24)); // here the brackets
$hours = floor(($secondsLeft - ($days*60*60*24)) / (60*60)); // and here too
echo "$days days and $hours hours left";
Following is the code snippet I have copied from the W3Schools website, while added my PHP code to get the "countdown to" timestamp and the "now" timestamp.
You will see I have commented out the original JavaScript code and replaced it with PHP code in two places, so it's clear to tell what's the difference between two options.
Basically when you think the "server time" is more reliable in your case, you can adopt the PHP approach.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<style>
p {
text-align: center;
font-size: 60px;
margin-top: 0px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
// Set the date we're counting down to
// 1. JavaScript
// var countDownDate = new Date("Sep 5, 2018 15:37:25").getTime();
// 2. PHP
var countDownDate = <?php echo strtotime('Sep 5, 2018 15:37:25') ?> * 1000;
var now = <?php echo time() ?> * 1000;
// Update the count down every 1 second
var x = setInterval(function() {
// Get todays date and time
// 1. JavaScript
// var now = new Date().getTime();
// 2. PHP
now = now + 1000;
// Find the distance between now an the count down date
var distance = countDownDate - now;
// Time calculations for days, hours, minutes and seconds
var days = Math.floor(distance / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
var hours = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) / (1000 * 60 * 60));
var minutes = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60)) / (1000 * 60));
var seconds = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60)) / 1000);
// Output the result in an element with id="demo"
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = days + "d " + hours + "h " +
minutes + "m " + seconds + "s ";
// If the count down is over, write some text
if (distance < 0) {
clearInterval(x);
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "EXPIRED";
}
}, 1000);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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