Probably easy..

daveyc

Hi there,

I'm writing a script that closes a page off at 2pm every sunday until 6pm, and on that page there's a countdown, which counts down to 2pm sunday.

Only, it doesnt! The second Sunday arrives the countdown displays all strangely, at the moment i'm using strtotime() :rolleyes:

Any ideas what i could to to fix the following code?

$time = strtotime("2pm next Sunday") - time();
$timeleft = $time1 - 50400;

function duration($secs) 
{ 
    $vals = array('w' => (int) ($secs / 86400 / 7), 
                  ' Days' => $secs / 86400 % 7, 
                  ' Hours' => $secs / 3600 % 24, 
                  ' Minutes' => $secs / 60 % 60, 
                  ' Seconds' => $secs % 60); 

    $ret = array(); 

    $added = false; 
    foreach ($vals as $k => $v) { 
        if ($v > 0 || $added) { 
            $added = true; 
            $ret[] = $v . $k; 
        } 
    } 

    return join(' ', $ret); 



} 

$pieces = explode(" ",duration($timeleft));

I can see the glaring problem with strtotime already. Ideally i'd like to get away from using it.. I don't really think it's a good idea to use text for numeric calculations! lol

So, the above code creates the exploded pieces, which are then used in this javascript code:

echo'
 <script type="text/javascript">

  var days = '.$pieces[0].'  

  var hours = '.$pieces[2].'
  var minutes = '.$pieces[4].'  

  var seconds = '.$pieces[6].'  

function setCountDown ()
{
  seconds--;
  if (seconds < 0){
      minutes--;
      seconds = 59
  }
  if (minutes < 0){
      hours--;
      minutes = 59
  }
  if (hours < 0){
      days--;
      hours = 23
  }
  document.getElementById("remain").innerHTML = days+" days, "+hours+" hours, "+minutes+" minutes, "+seconds+" seconds";
  setTimeout ( "setCountDown()", 1000 );
}
</script>
';

Any help at all would be really appreciated 🙂

Thanks,

Dave

wilku

Simple if statement would solve this I guess. If today is Sunday, count seconds till 2pm. Else count seconds till 2pm next Sunday.

daveyc

Hi Wilku,

I've actually tried that already. The strtotime() seems to be just counting down to Sunday. Not 2pm on Sunday.

I'd actually like to get away from using strtotime completely, and was wondering how I could acheive this.

Thanks 🙂

Dave

halojoy

$time = strtotime("2pm next Sunday") - time();
$timeleft = $time1 - 50400;

first you define $time
Then you use $time1
Where does $time1 come from .....

NogDog

I think I'd just do:

$hour = 14;
$now = time();
if(date('l', $now) == 'Sunday' && date('H', $now) < $hour)
{
   $timeleft = mktime($hour, 0, 0) - $now;
}
else
{
   $timeleft = strtotime('Next Sunday, '.$hour.':00:00') - $now;
}

daveyc

Hi Nogdog,

I've just tested your code today, and again, it's diplaying the countdown incorrectly still. I.e at this precise moment (13:57) it's displaying:

Time left to vote:
1 days, 2 hours, 36 minutes, NaN seconds

Any ideas?

Dave