New Posting Features - Countdown hack

Just in time for new year in my forums

Tested with vb3.6.4

Description
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This is a countdown hack, a user enters a simple bbcode tag in any post and a counter starts, supported inside a post, for example:

[countdown=Apocalypsis]30s[/countdown]

The text that would appear is:
"Apocalypsis is in 30 seconds"
(or 29, 28, seconds... depending on the time that you load the post)

When the counter expires then..
"The counter to Apocalypsis has expired"
will be shown. This phrases are editable.

The counter is live, any time the user refreshes the page the counter is updated. (screenshots below)

The following syntax is supported

[countdown=EVENT]1d23h59m59s[/countdown]

That is, EVENT for the event name
then any combination of a number, followed by a "d", for days
a number, followed by an "h", for hours
a number, followed by an "m", for minutes
a number, followed by a "s", for seconds

The order is important, seconds cannot appear before days. You can only include hours and minutes, or days and minutes... or only days. Any combination as long as the order is correct.


How does it work?
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The post's dateline is taken as the date baseline to calculate the time difference, this means that if you edit the post and change the counter, it will always start from the date that the post was published. If you hover over the counter a popup will show when the counter started.

Installation instructions
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1. Login to your admin control panel
2. Go to "Plugins & Products" -> "Manage products"
3. Click on "Add/Import product"
4. Browse for "product-cz_countdown.xml" (included in the zip file), and click "Import"

That's it. You can start using [countdown] bbcode tags in any post


Info for hackers:
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You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

[basilrath]

This works pretty good.................on mine nice countdown





Upload the Countdown.js to your forum root

just add this code wherever you want the countdown to whatever your counting down to and it will display the message you wish at the end of it ie "happy new year" etc

works well

[buileminh]

Nice hack! Thank you and installed

[jluerken]

How can I make this working on the vbAdvanced Portal Page?

[Kentaurus]

Originally Posted by jluerken

How can I make this working on the vbAdvanced Portal Page?

There is no support for vbAdvanced as that is a differente product, you might want to try asking the vbAdvanced developers for help.

[heavy1]

something is wrong on my forum
i put [countdown=Eureka]50d[/countdown]
and it says 2 weeks 2 days 2 Hours 23 minutes 50 seconds

what is wrong?

//edit
nevermind - i tried to edit old post and its taking post date.

[PinkDaisy]

Does this work for signatures??

[Censtudios]

I want to change the text. the "minutes" and "seconds" left are annoying and make the text very long... how do I do this? I searched in phrases, couldnt find anything

[Fabsboards]

I want a countdown timer that will allow you to enter a date of the event, not the time remaining until the event.

Does one exist?

AJAX would be nice too....

[rotor]

Looked at other countdowns that have more options ... like "Permissions" and date entry etc etc ...

But none of them work ....

At least this works

Thanks for puttin the time in :up:

marked ...

[WEBDosser]

marked..