Simple Countdown Counter

[mcmuney]

What's the simplest way to build a countdown counter using php? Assuming that I want $time to countdown to 0.

[minidak03]

What's the simplest way to build a countdown counter using php? Assuming that I want $time to countdown to 0.

 

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<?php 

      $mtime = microtime(); 

      $mtime = explode(' ', $mtime); 

      $mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0]; 

      $starttime = $mtime; 

?> 



<!-- put other code and html in here --> 





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<?php 

      $mtime = microtime(); 

      $mtime = explode(" ", $mtime); 

      $mtime = $mtime[1] + $mtime[0]; 

      $endtime = $mtime; 

      $totaltime = ($endtime - $starttime); 

      echo 'This page was created in ' .$totaltime. ' seconds.'; 

?>

 

Remember PHP executes on the server so you'll never actually see a timer counting if you want to see an actual timer you'll need to use JavaScript.

 

The code provided counts up and not down if you want something that counts down just use a while loop

 

$timer = 500;

while($timer > 0) {
// do something here
$timer--;
}

 

There are a variety of different ways you can do this depending on how you actually need it to perform.