$totalposts coding!

[mpadc]

Hi All

Dont know if anyone can help me what PHP code would i use to say countdown to x amount of posts

say you are reaching 1 million posts

you want to subtract this figure to $totalposts

any idea how one would code this?!?!?

Thanks

[StrifeX]

I'm a bit confused... Are you trying to make a variable that shows the total amount of forum posts on the forumhome? If so, search these forums for global variables (i remember finding one by Ziki).

[mpadc]

Nah Basically trying to do a countdown

our forum is approaching 2million posts

so on forum home i want to write text like

"Number of posts till 2 million - (shows the figure here)

so im thinking along the lines of $totalposts which is the variable for showing how many posts a forum has at the moment and get the figure and subtract it by 2million

hoep tha tmakes sense!

[Kirk Y]

Create a new plugin at hook location "forumhome_complete" with the following:

$remaining = 2000000 - $totalposts;

Now place $remaining wherever you'd like the remaining posts displayed on the FORUMHOME template.

ie: There are $remaining posts remaining to our goal of 2,000,000.

[Dismounted]

$totalposts is formatted, so use this instead of Kirk's code.

PHP Code:

$remaining = 2000000 - str_replace(',', '', $totalposts); 


[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

$totalposts is formatted, so use this instead of Kirk's code.

PHP Code:

$remaining = 2000000 - str_replace(',', '', $totalposts); 


I almost just disputed that str_replace saying you didn't define anything. I'm retarded.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

..also the seperator might not be a comma. It will depend on how your numbers are formatted.

[Ski-Whiz]

With this, is there a way to put the comma back in?? (using Dismounted method)

My numbers are being outputted as 100000 vice 100,000

[Opserty]

http://members.vbulletin.com/api/vBu..._number_format

So something like:

PHP Code:

$formattedtp = vb_number_format($totalposts); 


[Ski-Whiz]

But how would that format the output of

$remaining = 2000000 - str_replace(',', '', $totalposts);

I see where I can change the format of the total posts, but when using that count down code, it seems to strip the thousand separator..

ok I got it..

I just had to add another line..

So I used two $remaining1 and remaining....