Counters

Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:55 pm

I am currently looking for a counter to countdown the days till the release of the new Evanescence DVD (Shocker.) and I don't know where to find one. I know it exists because I saw someone on an Evanescence forum carrying it when their signature. Is it possible to find a counter and set it to countdown from X amount of days till the actual day of the event? Thanks to anyone who finds one, I will really appreciate it.

Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:05 pm

You might look here:
http://www.codehouse.com/javascript/scr ... countdown/

and you could also look at this one:
http://www.conveyor.com/java/timer/timer.html

Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:58 pm

shapu wrote:You might look here:
http://www.codehouse.com/javascript/scr ... countdown/

and you could also look at this one:
http://www.conveyor.com/java/timer/timer.html

Both of them require to download a program. I would however I am not sure if my computer could hold anymore programs. Is there another way I can find a counter without downloading anything?

Wed Nov 17, 2004 4:08 pm

Well, both of them are javascript, so you don't have to download a program so much as download a script. Anytime you run anything java on a page, then the script has to be in the same directory on the server as the page that's calling that script - so what you do is download the script from one of those pages, then put the script on your webserver.

I'll keep digging, though, for an HTML one. I don't think you'll be able to do an actual countdown timer, so much as just have the page display "x time to release" statically. Refreshing the page would change the time.

Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:32 pm

shapu wrote:Well, both of them are javascript, so you don't have to download a program so much as download a script. Anytime you run anything java on a page, then the script has to be in the same directory on the server as the page that's calling that script - so what you do is download the script from one of those pages, then put the script on your webserver.

I'll keep digging, though, for an HTML one. I don't think you'll be able to do an actual countdown timer, so much as just have the page display "x time to release" statically. Refreshing the page would change the time.

Thank you very much Shapu. I'll look for counters as well. If there is no HTML one than I'll use the java one provided by you. Thanks.

Thu Nov 18, 2004 12:46 am

this could easily be done with php and an image. I once had a dynamic image in my sig here but it was removed

Just search around for php dynamic images and counterdowners

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Thu Nov 18, 2004 3:26 pm

I hadn't even thought about that.

Here's a link to a static countdown PHP script (with a link to another javascript counter in it)
http://elouai.com/countdown-clock.php

Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:30 pm

shapu wrote:I hadn't even thought about that.

Here's a link to a static countdown PHP script (with a link to another javascript counter in it)
http://elouai.com/countdown-clock.php

Wow, thanks guys. The sad part is I have been trying to get both PHP and JAVA counters to work and I can't. Can anyone inform me on how to do it?