Countdown

[KrisCons]

hi

I need a function which will countdown to a specific date of each calender month.

This date will be the 13th of every month and I would like to display on my webpage something along the lines of:

You have xx days remaining until something happens...' etc and xx is the remaining number of days until the 13th is reached.

This 13th date will never change.

Can anyone point me in the right direct please or even better, illustrate how it can be achieved?

Thanks

[_theworks]

could do somthing like:

<?
$day = date("d");
if ($day < 13)
{
  echo (13 - $day).' days until the 13th.';
}
elseif($day > 13)
{
  echo 'the 13th was '.($day-13).' days ago.';
}
else 
{
  echo 'today is the 13th!';
}
?>

[KrisCons]

Hi,

Thanks for quick response, but I actually need the countdown to reset once it reaches the 13th, and begin to countdown how many days remain until the next 13th, rather than it counting how many days have passed since the last 13th.

I am unclear as to how I would go about this i.e. identifying what month it is now, and then determining how many days are left..?

Thanks

[rincewind456]

Try this

<?php

$_31 = array('Jan', 'Mar', 'May','Jul','Aug','Oct','Dec');

$_30 = array('Apr','Jun','Sep','Nov');

$day = date("d");
$month = date("M");
$year=date("L");

if ($day < 13)
{
	echo (13 - $day).' days until the 13th.';
}
elseif($day > 13){
	if (in_array($month, $_31)) {
		$d=31;
		$to_go= $d - $day + 13;
		echo $to_go.' days until the 13th.';

} elseif (in_array($month, $_30)){
	$d=30;
	$to_go= $d - $day + 13;
	echo $to_go.' days until the 13th.';

}else { if ($year==1){

	$d=29;
	$to_go= $d - $day + 13;
	echo $to_go.' days until the 13th.';
} else {
	$d=28;
	$to_go= $d - $day + 13;
	echo $to_go.' days until the 13th.';
}
}
} else {
	echo 'today is the 13th!';
}
?>

Even works for leap years!

[KrisCons]

Thanks!

Much more than I expected and is exactly what the page needs.

Cheers.

[bpat1434]

This:

elseif($day > 13){
    if (in_array($month, $_31)) {
        $d=31;
        $to_go= $d - $day + 13;
        echo $to_go.' days until the 13th.';

} elseif (in_array($month, $_30)){
    $d=30;
    $to_go= $d - $day + 13;
    echo $to_go.' days until the 13th.';

}

can be combined into:

elseif($day>13)
{
  $d = (in_array($month, $_31))?31:(in_array($month, $_30))?30:($year==1)?29:28;
  // If the month has 31 days, give $d value of 31
  // If not, if the month is in the 30 day array, give $d value of 30
  // If not, must be Feb. so is it a leap year?  If so, set to 29
  // Otherwise, set to 28
  $to_go = $d-$day+13;
  echo $to_go.' days until the 13th.';
}

[_theworks]

am unclear as to how I would go about this i.e. identifying what month it is now

perhaps you should read up on the [man]date[/man] function...