[Scandal's] Countdown Timer BBCode
 

Description
This product add two new BBCodes as follows:
... and
The string inside the BBCode is:
DAYS:HOURS:MINUTES:SECONDS, that you specify when make a post.

The results is a live countdown timer based on a specified Timezone! See screenshots!

But what's the difference between [COUNTDOWN] and [ECOUNTDOWN]?
COUNTDOWN has a start date-time, the date-time the item is posted.
As many times you edit the message, countdown timer will not change its start date.

ECOUNTDOWN is a countdown timer which will restart each time you edit a post! See it in action!


::EXAMPLE::
This bbcode can work on display of:

• Forum Posts
• Forum Announcements
• Social Group Messages
• Private Messages
• Profile Visitor Messages

Installation
1. Upload all files of /upload folder to your forum root.
2. Import *xml product and check Settings.
Done!!

Credits to akz645 on vbulletin.org for his idea and his paid support for the development of this product!!

Thanks for the Mod :)
Works on vBulletin 4.2.3

@Members
If the countdown timer is a few hours off from what you intended when you post, that means you have to adjust the timezone from the adminCP settings until it is correct.

Note:
I tried it on 2 different servers. One of them isn't very fast, so the timer often doesn't work properly- it shows sometimes when I refresh, but most of the times it doesn't. However, it did work most of the time on VM. I'm assuming that's because the thread has too many images (design/post heavy), so the timer stays stuck at 00:00:00:00 due to the server not processing the page cache correctly (something along those lines).
Edit: It turns out it was because I had activated cloudflare on my webhost, which doubled the cache of the entire forum. Hence that caused the entire forum to slow down/not load correctly.

However on my quicker webhost server, it worked without any problems. I doubt anybody here will have any problems, if you aren't a free user on a webhost. Just thought I'd mention it, incase somebody has this problem in the future.

When you write about start time, do you mean end time, time when timer will reach end (ie. 00:00:00:00)?

hmm yes,
let's say you make a post at: 1:00PM with bbcode:
When the post saved, the countdown timer will start from:
00:02:00:00
and will countdown...
00:01:59:59...
00:01:59:58... etc
and will end at 3:00PM.

So the countdown timer will run at post time + the value you set inside the bbcode.
As times you edit the post, the countdown timer will end at 3:00PM 'cause is [COUNTDOWN], not [ECOUNTDOWN].



The same if at 1:00PM you make a post with bbcode:
.. but if for example you edit the post at 2:00PM and hit save, the countdown timer will start again:
00:01:59:59...
00:01:59:58... etc
... and will end at 4:00PM

So in "E" case, we have the edit time (if an edit exists, otherwise we have the initial post time) + the value you set inside the bbcode. As many times you edit a post with "E", the timer will start again.

Hope now its more clear. :)

If activated on my board, I can't post any new thread/post because the texatarea disappear (WYSIWYG mode activated !) :eek:

Be sure you have upload all necessary files. There are an *xml product to import and a /upload folder, on the package with files. You do not upload the "upload" folder as it is, but its contents, to your forum root. :up:

It seems Filezilla didn't upload the content whereas I asked it to do ...

Sorry for the unpleasantness and thank you for your answer :)
It works ;)

Great!

No prob :)

can i put any code into a forum block to work in there?

@scandal thank you for the great plugin. Is there a option to show the ecounter in the threads where are listed? This will be perfect!