User Countdowns & Countups

[Jafo232]

Got the inspiration for this mod here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107596). Problem is, that mod does not work anymore. We decided to write our own.

This product allows users to set up a countdown timer or countup timer. The timer can run in real time with the javascript counter, or just static. Admin can choose to show the timer in users sigs or in the postbit user info area.

Usergroup permissions are handled in the options area so you do not have to modify many usergroups one at a time.

This product was developed for Andy R (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=7590) from Social Knowledge (http://www.socialknowledge.net/) and released here for others to enjoy.

Enjoy!

DON'T FORGET TO:

CLICK INSTALL! (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_miscactions.php?do=installhack&threadid=205841)

[Jafo232]

Reserved....

[XtremeOffroad]

Time for the Countdown till Spring.
Thanks

[Internetcafe]

Works in 3.7.4 .. thanks for a useful addition.

[Hasann]

Very Nice
How many queries does this add to each postbit+signature?

[Jafo232]

Very Nice
How many queries does this add to each postbit+signature?

None.

[Barakat]

very interesting , thanks

[Andrew johnson]

looks great - i will install in our forums

[oly51]

Interesting mod. Is there any way it could be set up so certain Usergroups (say Mods & Admins) could place the countdown timer into a post or a way limit the forums where it can be added to a post (or their sig/postbit) by members?

Members on my site often start threads about an event they are running or will be attending. The first post usually contains the event details. It would be nice to have the countdown in that post.

[Jafo232]

Not a way to do that with this mod, no.

[Hornstar]

thats a shame, that would be a wonderful feature!

[zelnik]

Simply does not work on 3.8.1 for me..

Installed properly, shows up in USER CP, set the countdown and nothing shows in either signature or postbit depending what you chose.. set it to active=yes also.

Using default vB style so it can't be hooks issue...

Any ideas?

[Daoism]

yeah. A countdown in a post would be nice :D

[TandyServices]

Works for me.. But is there a way to center it in the sig or bold or colors?? You know all the options?? If so this would be great add.

[newmasalaboard]

Very usefull MOD for various events in our forum :)

"Marked as Installed"

[zelnik]

I've installed it just fine on my fresh install test forum and it works fine..

So it must be conflicting with other add-ons/mods?

[RedTrinity]

Simply does not work on 3.8.1 for me..

Installed properly, shows up in USER CP, set the countdown and nothing shows in either signature or postbit depending what you chose.. set it to active=yes also.

Using default vB style so it can't be hooks issue...

Any ideas?

I have it working on a 3.8.1 forum, so I would suggest its most definitely a conflict on your forum somewhere with another hack :)

Works for me.. But is there a way to center it in the sig or bold or colors?? You know all the options?? If so this would be great add.

I 2nd this suggestion! :up: They don't really stand out enough at the moment, and also the text spaced out over numerous lines - would prefer to have it on just one line, or two max.

Cheers :)

[MindTrix]

Installed and seemed to be working ok. Just two problems:

1) Not very clear to use if you want to have the counter count UP.
2) I set a time to count up from, then edited it and now the counter does not show in the post bit anymore, possible bug?

[Jafo232]

Works for me.. But is there a way to center it in the sig or bold or colors?? You know all the options?? If so this would be great add.

You can edit the sk-timer_countdownbit to add more styling.

[bw1]

Great! Thx :)

[l_amhed]

Hi,

I've just tested it on my localhost to see how it would react. This is a good addon but I like when there is only one signature per page/per user so I've installed the hack "Display only one signature per member per thread". But yours display the countdown all the time, in each posts. So there is a sort of "conflict" between them. Or is there a file modification to apply to solve this ?

Thanks.

[bestword]

It's a good mod.

But i think it would have more useful if it could shown in more area not only in users sigs and users info area

[RedTrinity]

You can edit the sk-timer_countdownbit to add more styling.

Hi Jafo,

Could you please give some support on how to make the countdown appear on one line.

Example:

My birthday is in:
8 Days, 4 Hours
52 Minutes, 31 seconds

To:

My birthday is in:
8 Days, 4 Hours, 52 Minutes, 31 seconds

I've looked at the template and can't work out how to change this. I did work out how to add the colour/bold etc. effects though!

Cheers :)

[Jafo232]

Hi Jafo,

Could you please give some support on how to make the countdown appear on one line.


If you edit the plugin called: "Handle timer in postbit", just delete"<br />" then click save. :)

[JayEss]

Hi there, great mod, thanks. Is it possible to have more than one countdown per member? My members like to count down to their kids' birthdays and obviously most have more than one kid... :) Cheers.

[soundbarrierpro]

Not working in 3.7.2 PL1 in either signature or messagebit

[Merrit]

Can anybody let me know where I can translate the output data? I am running a German board with this counter. The displayed text in user info is "701 days 3 hours".

I also need to translate the text in ucp "Edit countdown/countup" to German.

Any idea?

Thx in advance!

[MindTrix]

Any news/update on the message i posted before with the errors?

[Mum]

Hi there, great mod, thanks. Is it possible to have more than one countdown per member? My members like to count down to their kids' birthdays and obviously most have more than one kid... :) Cheers.
I have the same problem, some have 5 or more :)

[RedTrinity]

If you edit the plugin called: "Handle timer in postbit", just delete"<br />" then click save. :)

Thank you, that did the trick :)

[ottawamom]

Um... it's giving me errors - is there a quick way to uninstall or disable? I can't seem to find for some reason right now. It seems good but just need to tweak my set up before I take this live.

[jellykelly]

Having issues. Followed instructions for installation. The prompt appears in the UCP. Clicking on the prompt only brings up a 404 error. Any ideas? Thank you!

[Jafo232]

Yeah, you didn't upload all the files, or you didn't upload them correctly. You have to upload the CONTENTS of the upload directory, not the upload directory itself.

[Jafo232]

Can anybody let me know where I can translate the output data? I am running a German board with this counter. The displayed text in user info is "701 days 3 hours".

I also need to translate the text in ucp "Edit countdown/countup" to German.

Any idea?

Thx in advance!

The days, hours, secs, etc can be found in the clientscript/sktimer.js file:

DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds.";

Or in "Handle timer in postbit" plugin.

As for the rest, it is phrased. Do a search in phrases.

[jellykelly]

Thank you. I'll try again.

[odln018]

I've got a forum where we are running a special event, each thread will need to have the same timer.

Can this be done wit this mod?

Ex.

Thread Vote 1 - ends on A
THread Vote 2 - Ends on A

[Merrit]

Thx for your support!

[Wunderlust]

Can't get it to work on 3.8.1. Does anyone know what the conflict with another mod might be?

[jellykelly]

Thank you. It worked. My husband had me second guessing myself.

[meissenation]

Can anyone confirm that it causes issues in Firefox? I've confirmed this on two different computers and it only happens to the person who has a count-down timer in their sig. I have this product installed so that only the Administrators can use it per the usergroup permissions in the Options. I have it displayed in my signature. While using Firefox, if I reply to a post using Quick Reply the reloading of the page is broken... That is, it will post the reply and instead of refreshing the page to show my post it sits at a blank screen saying "Loading..." and never loads. This happens on two separate machines using Firefox. Seems to work OK in Chrome and Internet Explorer.

[Anne Lise]

I can't get this to work

[movslow]

I can't get this to work

Doesn't work here either.

Several mods installed, and I'm not going through the tedious work of removing them one by one to test it.

[odln018]

You can edit the sk-timer_countdownbit to add more styling.


If I wanted to add bold to this, how would I go about it?

Also - If I wanted to assign a specific usergroup to a have same countdown, how would I do that?

[Merrit]

Can anyone confirm that it causes issues in Firefox? I've confirmed this on two different computers and it only happens to the person who has a count-down timer in their sig. I have this product installed so that only the Administrators can use it per the usergroup permissions in the Options. I have it displayed in my signature. While using Firefox, if I reply to a post using Quick Reply the reloading of the page is broken... That is, it will post the reply and instead of refreshing the page to show my post it sits at a blank screen saying "Loading..." and never loads. This happens on two separate machines using Firefox. Seems to work OK in Chrome and Internet Explorer.


The counter causses issues in Firefox. In my vBulletin forums (if counter is active) I can't use "quick reply" anymore. For the moment I disabled quick reply because my users love the counter, but I hope for a solution soon :)

Apart of this: I still did not figure out how to translate the display from 700 days 12 hours to 700 Tage 12 Stunden (German).

if (typeof(DisplayFormat)=="undefined")
DisplayFormat = "%%D%% Tage, %%H%% Stunden, %%M%% Minuten, %%S%% Sekunden.";

I tried in sktimer.js but it did not work. Any idea?

I also would like to edit the design (red/green, bold) but I don't know how. Perhaps anybody can let me know (exactly) where and how? Thanks!

Merrit

[Gleedo]

Nice little mode - thanks

Clicks Installed :)

[odln018]

I can confirm that the counter breaks the quick reply feature.

[Jafo232]

I can confirm that the counter breaks the quick reply feature.

Version 1.1 fixes this.

[meissenation]

I can confirm that the update fixes it. Thanks!!!

[DobieGillis?]

OMG! The 1.1 fixed my Firefox quick reply issues. I was going nuts trying to figure out the problem. Thank you!

[Mechelaar]

Hallo,

thanx for this very nice mod. My User´s love it. Works fine with 3.8.1

[msvi007]

Our members love this mod and it works great, thanks.

It would be great to allow the members to add their own style to them, could be as simple as Bold, color, etc.

Thanks

[beckyvan]

You can edit the sk-timer_countdownbit to add more styling.

Where would I put this in the template and how? Sorry, newbie. I would like it smaller, and bold. It's too large and no more than two lines. :)

[odln018]

Ok, this did resolve my quick reply issue, however, now the message before specified time is not being displayed.

Thoughts?

[Ljusya]

Good things.. but is it possible to display counter with Year and Month
For example
I have car: 3 Years 6 Month 5 Days

[SgtSling]

I installed this when it came out, but I am now running vbulletin seo
and I can't get it to work at all.
I uninstallled it and reinstalled it.. to no avail. All the files are there.
All the settings are correct.
I have plugin hooks enabled.. but nothing shows up.
Any clues?

[Sooner95]

EZ install, works great!

[cherylferraro]

I love this idea but the mod won't work with vbseo enabled. When I disabled vbseo it worked fine.

I found this over on the vbseo forum about a conflict with a previous countdown mod that serves a different purpose but I thought the problem may be the same. Apparently analytics created the problem but when I tried disabling analytics in vbseo to see if that would fix this mod it still didn't work.

http://www.vbseo.com/f23/attachment-countdown-timer-8068/

Any ideas how to get this mod to work with vbseo?

[djbaxter]

Can anyone confirm that it causes issues in Firefox? I've confirmed this on two different computers and it only happens to the person who has a count-down timer in their sig. I have this product installed so that only the Administrators can use it per the usergroup permissions in the Options. I have it displayed in my signature. While using Firefox, if I reply to a post using Quick Reply the reloading of the page is broken... That is, it will post the reply and instead of refreshing the page to show my post it sits at a blank screen saying "Loading..." and never loads. This happens on two separate machines using Firefox. Seems to work OK in Chrome and Internet Explorer.

The counter causses issues in Firefox. In my vBulletin forums (if counter is active) I can't use "quick reply" anymore. For the moment I disabled quick reply because my users love the counter, but I hope for a solution soon :)

I love this idea but the mod won't work with vbseo enabled. When I disabled vbseo it worked fine. Any ideas how to get this mod to work with vbseo?

Older versions of vBSEO create issues with AJAX in vBulletin 3.75 and 3.8x. I've seen one installation where the problems that created were specific to Firefox - everything worked fine in IE and Opera. If this sounds like it might be your problem, you'll need to go to vBSEO to download a patch.

[cherylferraro]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I have upgraded to vbseo 3.3.0 RC2, the latest release.

Still no luck getting the mod to work though.

[Samsine]

Hi,
install, a wonderful feature ... but
This product allows users to set up a countdown timer or countup timer
where can I set up the countup timer?

I set the countdown time on
countdown start
0 Tage, 0 Stunden, 1 Minuten, 4 Sekunden.
But after the countdown time, i refresh the site and it started the countup time :confused:

countdown end
0 Tage, 0 Stunden, 0 Minuten, 33 Sekunden.
countdown end
0 Tage, 0 Stunden, 3 Minuten, 49 Sekunden.

is there a solution?

where can I deactivate the countup?


regards

[The Coon]

Good things.. but is it possible to display counter with Year and Month
For example
I have car: 3 Years 6 Month 5 Days

I would appreciate this too ... :cool:

[opsman]

Excellent mod works for me using 3.8 and VBA just in case anyone was worried..
Keep up the good work :D

[wmlvb]

Much needed mod thanks ! Not working for me though. I have vbseo 3.3 is there a fix?? thanks

[wmlvb]

to be more specific I see the setting in my usercp but does not show up in signature

[wmlvb]

anybody have a solution? would love to have this mod working!

[Mr. Burns]

When I click on Edit Countdown/Countup in User CP it brings me to my mainpage and not to timer.php.

[yotsume]

Live Countdown Stopped?

This mod is great but...

I just noticed that the live countdown is no longer working and it was working perfectly.

The only change I made was to edit so it had the countdown on a single line.

I tried to uninstall and reinstall and same thing the live countdown doesnt change unless the page is refreshed... and yes I checked the admincp settings.

How can I fix this?

THANKS!

[Chrisg20]

Thanks, going to hold onto it.

[MindStar]

I have this installed and the countdown works. Next question is, how do I remove a countdown from my profile? It's now counting up past the event date that I set.

[alfaowner]

too buggy and no usergroup support, crashes firefox also! Ditch it or users will ditch your site!

[yotsume]

Funny but it works fine on my site and does NOT crash Firefox. The only issue is the countdown is no longer live and requires a page refresh which I have posted about already with zero reply or support.

[rinkrat]

Uncached templates: sk-timer_countdownbit (1)

How do I cache it?

[jarosciak]

Very nice, but it collides with my forum's color scheme. Any way to change the color directly through a menu in Admin panel or to adopt the forum color scheme automatically? That would be a very nice feature to this fantastic addon.

[jarosciak]

This is what it looks like on my forum, very hard to read, please let me know how to fix it:
100246

[socalsoccer]

Where in here would you edit to change color or font?

<br />
<script language="JavaScript" src="clientscript/sktimer.js"></script>
<if condition="$puser[skunixdate] > TIMENOW">$puser[sktitle]<else />$puser[skdescription]</if> <br />
<script language="JavaScript">
TargetDate$post[postid] = "$puser[skdateline]";
<if condition="$vboptions[sktimer_counter_active]">
CountActive$post[postid] = true;
<else />
CountActive$post[postid] = false;
</if>
skpostid$post[postid] = 'cntdwn$post[postid]';
CountStepper$post[postid] = $puser[direction];
LeadingZero$post[postid] = false;
DisplayFormat$post[postid] = "$puser[skformat]";
FinishMessage$post[postid] = "$puser[skdescription]";

startSkTimer(TargetDate$post[postid],FinishMessage$post[postid],CountStepper$post[postid],LeadingZero$post[postid],DisplayFormat$post[postid],CountActive$post[postid],TargetDate$post[postid],skpostid$post[postid]);
</script>

[jarosciak]

I couldn't wait for an answer and edited the templates and added a proper colors myself.

[tlwwolfseye]

I couldn't wait for an answer and edited the templates and added a proper colors myself.

Well, if the Edits worked for you, how about you post how and what you changed so others can also benefit from it. ;)

[socalsoccer]

I couldn't wait for an answer and edited the templates and added a proper colors myself.


Yes JaroSciak please show all of us how to edit that template.

Thanks :)

[jarosciak]

This is what I did:

- admincp
- Styles & Templates
- Open: sk-timer_add
- Copy the code of sk-timer_add template
- Open FrontPage Code view and paste in the code of sk-timer_add template
- Switch to Frontpage Design view
- Edit a color of entire table to match the background of your forum
- Edit color of text to contrast your background

ps. if you don't have FrontPage, you can use Microsoft Free Trial of Expression Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=44fa7f93-7d57-4523-b0c9-2ce54397b732&displaylang=en

Anyways, this is what it was before I've changed it:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=100246

This is what it looks like now:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=100260

I hope I've given you at least some kind of a help, but that is in a nutshell how I went about it. Enjoy.

[socalsoccer]

admincp
- Styles & Templates
- Open: sk-timer_add
- Copy / Paste the code What code did you paste and exactly where?

I dont want to change the table color , just the font that is displayed in the posts.

thanks

[jarosciak]

I've upgraded my instructions above.
Please note, while this works for me, this is not how it should be done.
Programmer of this script should add an option to implement text and backgroung colors.

[socalsoccer]

Thanks Jaro.

You wanted your admin Cpanel color changed, and I just need the font color changed in the post. There should be an easy way to do this. I appreciate your help but it does not correlate with what I am trying to do.

[jarosciak]

Thanks Jaro.

You wanted your admin Cpanel color changed, and I just need the font color changed in the post. There should be an easy way to do this. I appreciate your help but it does not correlate with what I am trying to do.


I am not sure I understand, but if you just want to change the color of the message text, use a BB code:

Go to Control Panel, Edit Countdown and use this as a message to display:

Countdown to Joe's Vacation:

then it'll look like this:
100278

[socalsoccer]

I am not sure I understand, but if you just want to change the color of the message text, use a BB code:

Go to Control Panel, Edit Countdown and use this as a message to display:

Countdown to Joe's Vacation:

then it'll look like this:
100278

JARO thank you very much!!!! That is all I wanted. i did not know you could ad those tags in the snall edit box.

[jarosciak]

Yeah, I didn't know either, but I was playing around with it and realized it worked with BB code. Great.

[wmlvb]

I would like to add hyperlink to the text of event. Do I use bb code or html to do this? Thanks

[Battle_Ring]

Could you make one the admin can set to show in the header

[samdu]

Any way to add a fieldset to this in the postbit?

[matthewhotdude]

If you edit the plugin called: "Handle timer in postbit", just delete"<br />" then click save. :)

I'm thick where do I find this?

[chick]

Nice idea but this must conflict with something else so I cannot mark it as installed.

Running the latest vb, vbseo and multiple hacks. Everything appears OK except it does not show in sig or postbit. What is the hook for it?

Isn't there anything I can do, I would really like it to work.

OK I got it to work on another site of mine and of all places a heavily modified theme. Marked as installed.

[LisaJH]

This isnt working all that comes up is "counting down to my 22nd birthday" but there is no timer ??? Ive installed everything correctly... could someone please help with this

[betts02]

am i correct in thinking if i place a user into a group with this mod it puts the countdown timer in automatically ?

i use a small code at the moment which i have to place in each users sig when i place them in a certain cat, so it takes me ages but if this mod means i can add the mod for a certain cat and when i place a member in this cat it automatically places thr desired countdown timer in their sig

can someone please let me know ?

tagged for the moment
cheers

[wbottomley]

I hate to revive an old thread but my users are requesting this again. The only problem I have, I've upgraded to VB 4.0.1.

Are they any plans to upgrade this fine mod?

[Dutch_Boy]

I have installed the mod on my forum but i got a problem. It only shows text and no time.
How can i fix this?

Running 3.8.4

[exposed]

Is there a way to put this in a module on the home page?

[X_FiLeS]

Very nice Mod for my webcenter thanks > Installed.

[MagicThemeParks]

Works perfectly out of the box with 3.8.5 :up:

Added styling (bold/font color) by editing the sk-timer_countdownbit template. Simply added styling around $puser[sktitle]

[odln018]

MAgicThemeParts - What kind of styling did you do?

Also - I'd love to be able to have it go in Months/days/hours/mins/secs.

[MagicThemeParks]

odln018, I basically changed the font color and bolded it in the 'title' of the countdown. But, I figured that I'd share where to do it since others may want to know where to find it.

You can see here in post two of this thread for an example: http://www.fantasyleagueforums.com/showthread.php?t=24

[odln018]

Ok - For some reason, the timer all of sudden stopped working for specific users. It's weird, and there were no changes to anything else on the board.

I've tried to uninstall/install, with no success.

[trueoak]

Anyone know how to show a preview of the countdown timer on the creation page? That way someone can see the actual time of their current timer? You can't use the same script as it's post specific, but I've been unable to figure out how to show it on the create page.

[AndrewRich]

I've installed this but am having some difficulty (things which have been reported up-thread). I tried to remove the unnecessary line-breaks, but when I made those changes (only removing some <br /> tags) the live countdown stops and the numbers only change on a page reload. What is the code looking for as far as the live update?

vB 3.8.6 PL1.

I uninstalled the product completely (including dropping the "sktimer" table, see next post) and reinstalled from scratch. I checked in between each step to see if the countdown was still working.

Plugin Manager -> Edit "Handle timer in postbit"
Before:
if ($puser['skformat'] == 'dh') { $puser['skformat'] = '%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours'; } else { $puser['skformat'] = '%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours <br /> %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds.'; }
After:
if ($puser['skformat'] == 'dh') { $puser['skformat'] = '%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours'; } else { $puser['skformat'] = '%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours %%M%% Minutes, %%S%% Seconds.'; }
Change:
Remove " <br />"

Reload page with countdown: Countdown works.

Style Manager -> Edit "sk-timer_countdownbit"
Before:
<if condition="$puser[skunixdate] > TIMENOW">$puser[sktitle]<else />$puser[skdescription]</if> <br />
After:
<if condition="$puser[skunixdate] > TIMENOW">$puser[sktitle]<else />$puser[skdescription]</if>
Change:
Remove "<br />"

Reload page with countdown: Countdown works.

Style Manager -> Edit "sk-timer_countdownbit"
Remove first line consisting of "<br />".

Reload page with countdown: Countdown works.

vBulletin Options -> SK - Countdown/Countup Settings -> Event Location
Switched back and forth between Signature and User Info, reloading page with countdown each time: Countdown works.

I can only guess that I must have typoed something the first time through and later, on being more careful while doing things step-by-step, didn't mess it up.

Result: Countdown works, no line breaks.

[AndrewRich]

The "uninstallcode" section of the product XML is blank. That means that when uninstalling, the product's SQL changes are left behind. This is rather poor practice. Can it be updated? Seems like all you'd need is to drop the "sktimer" table.


<installcode><![CDATA[$vbulletin->db->query("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS " . TABLE_PREFIX . "sktimer (
skuserid int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
sktitle text,
skdescription text,
skdateline int(11) default NULL,
skactive tinyint(4) default NULL,
skformat enum('dhms','dh') default 'dhms',
PRIMARY KEY (skuserid)
)");]]></installcode>
<uninstallcode />


Edit: The updated product XML in my post above includes uninstall code which drops the "sktimer" table.

[ascender]

Just wondering if anyone is able to update this to be compatible with VB4? Its a brilliant mod and one that our users are missing now we've upgraded.

Thanks.

[boomcar68]

Installed on Version 3.7.3
1 issue that there is no text displayed after the countdown.
I have write something in the Message to display after specified time,but there is just no text in ucer info nor under sig.
How can i change this,or what's wrong?

[kolibrii]

Hello, i am alreddy using vB 3.6.8. Installation works, administration too. But no chance to set countup in Profile (no option seen). Can anyone help me to run this mod under 3.6.8?!

[AndrewRich]

I've identified a bug in this script; when a user includes an apostrophe or single quote in their "countdown finished" message, the countdown will not actively decrement. It looks like the single quote should be escaped. I'm looking at the script code now and will update when I have a fix.

Update:

In sktimer.js, I added the following as the first two lines in the CountBack function:

FinishMessage = FinishMessage.replace ( "'", "& #39;" );
FinishMessage = FinishMessage.replace ( '"', '& #34;' );
(There are extra spaces in the above code between the "&" and the "#" because vB kept helpfully rendering the entities in the post. It should be "ampersand pound 39 semicolon" for single quote and "ampersand pound 34 semicolon" for colon, with no spaces.)

This just replaces single and double quotes with their HTML entity representations. I've attached the updated sktimer.js.

*** This solves the reported problem of only some user countdowns actively counting! ***