Increase Count

[webpals]

Hello,

I am a PHP Newbie. I have searched for the better part of a day now for a tutorial or code snippet to do the following. I want to have a text counter update itself every 10-15 seconds by an incrament of say 5. What I am trying to do is something similar to the national debt clock or the number of burgers served at McDonalds. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Chris

[polson]

Play with the unix timestamp, for example, as I write this it is :

$timestamp = 981061539;

Which stems from doing :

$timestamp = time();

This is the number of seconds since the epoch, it increases by one every second. Base your number off it. Create some little algorithm and go with that, no need to store anything.

[Anon]

Thanks!
I'll give it a go.

[Anon]

Whats an epoch?

[polson]

Check out :

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=epoch

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/epoch.html

Pretty interesting.