Help needed with creating a "Countdown Clock"
 

Hi everyone,

This time I need YOUR help.

I want wanting to run a competition for MyMPxPlayer.org members, but with a slight twist.

The competition is going to get everyone to do a 'Treasure Hunt' and the first to find it, post their answers to enter the draw.

So, to make it fair for everyone, I want to put in a "Countdown Timer" on the page to tell everyone when the next Treasure Hunt question will be so everyone gets a fair chance to find it and answer.

The trick is, I'm after a SERVER-SIDE "Countdown Timer". This is so that the time is not dependent on the user, otherwise the countdown timer will be different depending on what time zone you are in. I want a constant timer that everyone sees.

As I don't know programming or scripting, I was hoping if some members who have programming/scripting experience can help out? Even if it's a Flash file.....?

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi mate,

I found this on the internet which should be good: http://scripts.franciscocharrua.com/...down-clock.php

If that is not any good I can look for some more and even try and get a script from someone.

Hey there, this is a website for stuff that you can put on your MySpace.
I think I am a little confused on what you actually want, but I know for a fact that the countdown will not change when you go to a different time zone.

Here it is:
http://www.pageplugins.com/generators/flash_countdown/

Re: Help needed with creating a "Countdown Clock"
 

hello buddy :lol:
i have something about programming
i know asp and vb/jscript
it would be a great feeling for me if i can help :)

Thanks nzer_4_lyf for that.
Unfortunately I have already tried this and it doesn't work :(

If you know of anything else, let me know.

Thanks Moniz123 for that.
Nice countdown, however the timer is dependent on the CLIENT computer's time. For example, if I change the time on my computer's clock, it will also change the time on the countdown.

The situation is, since I am in New Zealand, we are generally a few hours ahead of everyone else in the world. So the problem is if I set the time to countdown to February the 1st for example and it's 10pm now in NZ, my countdown clock will display with 2 hours and counting. However, for someone in America for example who are in a different time zone and are a few hours behind us, their countdown clock will display with 5 hours left and counting instead. That's the problem.

So, I'm looking for a countdown clock where the time is actually based on the SERVER instead. Since the time is based on my Web Server, it will be constant for anyone in the world and based on ONE computer instead of many in different time zones.

Hope that make sense.....(??)

Hi zer0,

Thanks for your help.
MyMPxPlayer.org already is running on php, so if you can do something in php, that would be great :).

Otherwise Java or Java Script I think I can run on the site.

Thanks for your assistance. Hopefully you can come up with something :).

http://www.elouai.com/countdown-clock.php
It says its server dependant... i hope this works for you :)

Re: Help needed with creating a "Countdown Clock"
 

hello :)
i already came out of the code in php.
i'm now trying to dload php server so i can test it from my computer then ill send it to you if it works.
i hope it'll.
cheers 8)

Thanks zer0,

Hum... I'm not sure how to incorporate it into a post within a forum though.....? I tried to incorporate a php code into a post, but I think due to security, it's been disabled.

Have you tried with Java or Java Script? Do you think that will work?