Making a countdown from websites API

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I'm trying to make a countdown page by getting the information from this websites api but I need to know how I would get it to display how many hours and minutes left. The URL is http://services.tvrage.com/tools/quickinfo.php?show=dexter&exact=1

 

The part I'm working on is:

 

RFC3339@2009-12-06T21:00:00

 

Does anyone know how?

[mikesta707]

Assuming your time strings will always be of that format (and have a valid time) You could do something like this

$string = "RFC3339@2009-12-06T21:00:00";

$time = end(explode('@', $string));
$time = strtotime($time);

$now = time();
$timeLeft = $time - $now;
$secsInDay = 60*60*24;//60 seconds in a min * 60 mins in an hour * 24 hours in a day
//day sleft
$daysLeft = (int)($timeLeft / $secsInDay);
$timeLeft %= $secsInDay;
$secsInHour = 60*60;
//hours left
$hoursLeft = (int)($timeLeft / $secsInHour);
$timeLeft %= $secsInHour;
//minutes left;
$minutesLeft = (int)($timeLeft / 60);//60 secs in a minute
$timeLeft %= 60;
//secs left is timeLeft
$secsLeft = $timeLeft;

echo "$daysLeft days $hoursLeft hours $minutesLeft minutes and $secsLeft seconds";

 

Just ask if you need an explanation

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Thanks mikesta

 

I'm trying to list about 10 shows and I want to know if there is any better way in doing this? This is what I've got now:

 

<?php

function get_between ($text, $s1, $s2) {
   $mid_url = "";
   $pos_s = strpos($text,$s1);
   $pos_e = strpos($text,$s2);
   for ( $i=$pos_s+strlen($s1) ; ( ( $i < ($pos_e)) && $i < strlen($text) ) ; $i++ ) {
       $mid_url .= $text[$i];
   }
   return $mid_url;
}


function get_time ($string) {

$time = end(explode('@', $string));
$time = strtotime($time);

$now = time();
$timeLeft = $time - $now;
$secsInDay = 60*60*24;//60 seconds in a min * 60 mins in an hour * 24 hours in a day
//day sleft
$daysLeft = (int)($timeLeft / $secsInDay);
$timeLeft %= $secsInDay;
$secsInHour = 60*60;
//hours left
$hoursLeft = (int)($timeLeft / $secsInHour);
$timeLeft %= $secsInHour;
//minutes left;
$minutesLeft = (int)($timeLeft / 60);//60 secs in a minute
$timeLeft %= 60;
//secs left is timeLeft
$secsLeft = $timeLeft;

echo "$daysLeft days $hoursLeft hours $minutesLeft minutes and $secsLeft seconds<BR><BR>";

}

$rs2 = file_get_contents("http://services.tvrage.com/tools/quickinfo.php?show=lost&exact=1");
$between = get_between($rs2, "RFC3339", "GMT+0");
get_time($between);

$rs2 = file_get_contents("http://services.tvrage.com/tools/quickinfo.php?show=dexter&exact=1");
$between = get_between($rs2, "RFC3339", "GMT+0");
get_time($between);
?>

[mikesta707]

well this

for ( $i=$pos_s+strlen($s1) ; ( ( $i < ($pos_e)) && $i < strlen($text) ) ; $i++ ) {
       $mid_url .= $text[$i];
   }

 

can be accomplished with substr

 

<?php

function get_between ($text, $s1, $s2) {
   $pos_s = strpos($text,$s1);
   $pos_e = strpos($text,$s2);	
   return substr($text, $pos_s + strlen($s1), $pos_e - ($pos_s + strlen($s1)) );
}

$text = "This will be some VEERY long text with somsde words and more words, but yeah...";
echo get_between($text, "be", "words");


?>

some VEERY long text with somsde

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Thanks mikesta