PHP & Javascript Dynamic Countdown

mark_and_co

I want to set up an auction set, and on the auction products I want to show a live countdown until the auction ends. I have downloaded a dynamic countdown script from dynamic drive and it's very good but it pulls the current time from the user.

What I want to do is pull the current time from the server (actually I'll be using the gmdate function), not the customers pc time, coz this may show the incorrect time if the user is in a different timezone.

I have attached the code from dynamic drive. I have spent hours on it and the best I can do is display the time left, but it doesn't update.

Can someone help please??

leatherback

Hey,

What you need to do is use PhP to genewrate the year / month / day / hour / minute / second when this script is loaded, using the date functions
and insert these values into the script, replacing this:

var today=new Date()
var todayy=today.getYear()
if (todayy < 1000)
todayy+=1900
var todaym=today.getMonth()
var todayd=today.getDate()
var todayh=today.getHours()
var todaymin=today.getMinutes()
var todaysec=today.getSeconds()

For fixed time elements.

J.X

mark_and_co

That's what I thought, but I've tried this. This is fine to make the time correct for the server time, but is doesn't countdown dynamically - I need to refresh the page.

Weedpacket

You should be able to hardcode the closing time for the counter in the Javascript to a specific date and time. After that, the counter should operate as normal. How you do that is a Javascript issue, however, as would further problems getting it to run once you do start it with a hardcoded time.

Putting the server time in is easy enough. PHP doesn't care about Javascript or HTML and just treats both as plain ordinary text. You're free to write <?php echo "some time and date string";?> in the middle of a block of Javsacript just as you can anywhere else.

clowngirl

Did anyone ever get this to work and will you post it if you did..