Countdown Timer for your users

(inspired by this thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=107226)

This little AddOn gives your users the option to show a custom countdown timer at the bottom of their signature.

Features:

• Fully configurable via UserCP (see screenshot)
• BB-Code can be used for eventname and overmessage
• fully phrased/templated, nothing hardcoded and so fully customizable
• leading days or hours with a value of "0" are not shown
  (so it shows "42minutes" rather then "0days 0hours 42minutes")

Installation:
Painless:

• Upload "plugins_usercountd.php" to ".../forum/includes"
• Import the product .XML

DONE
That's it.
No template edits, no nothing


Usage:
Go into your UserCP -> Edit Options
On the very bottom you will find the options for the Countdown Timer.
Set it to whatever you like, if "Enable" is set to "Yes" the timer will automatically be shown on the bottom of your sig, set to "No" will hide/disable the time display



Have fun


Update 1.10
[high]IF YOU UPDGRADE FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION, BE SURE TO UNISTALL THE CURRENTLY INSTALLED ONE BEFORE INSTALLING THE UPGRADE![/high]
(unfortunately all events will be lost)

• [FIX] Phrased the last three things that were not (Yes/No of the enable radio and main description)
• [NEW] Added Usergroup Permissions for the countdown!
  In the usergroupmanager it now has an area "User Countdown Permissions" where the admin can allow/enable or disallow/disable the countdown timer for each usergroup.

[high]If the usergroup permissions do not work, or even don't show up at all, you might need to rebuild the bitfield using this URL:[/high]
http://yourdomain.tld/pathtoforum/ad...buildbitfields

[Chris Lang]

Frickin' Cool Hack! **Clicks Install*** My users love it!

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by scottct1

Hmm its not working for me.

I go and make my event, click save then go back in and look at my options again and it is blank.

Any ideas?

What PHP version do you have?
Might be the same problem I have on my live board....

[JaMBo]

Originally Posted by Hellcat

What PHP version do you have?
Might be the same problem I have on my live board....

that is the same for me, it not show $event either?, we are on PHP version 4.4.1 if thats any help

[Hellcat]

Is only the event empty or is nothing saved at all?

[NuclioN]

Hellcat i saw that it only works if you have a signature. If not the countdown is not showing up.

[Hellcat]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

Hellcat i saw that it only works if you have a signature. If not the countdown is not showing up.

Yes, that's right.
The countdown only shows if there's a signature for that post.
So if someone disabled sigs showing it's also not shown.
That's on purpose, but might be enhanced in future updates

[scootman]

<font color="SeaGreen">Klick Install</font>

Great hack,thanks

Regards

[BrandiDup]

Can I kiss your feet? Seriously, thank you so much. I've been requesting this since I got vB last year. Installed flawlessly and my members LOVE it. Thank you sooo sooo much.

Is there a way to make more than one countdown? My members do a ton of countdowns on my forum and the tickers from the ticker sites really slow the load time (not to mention taking up tons of space) so I'd love to enable more than one countdown to get rid of some of the tickers.

You totally rock.

[BrandiDup]

One quick question. Is there any way I can keep the border around the countdown, but stop it from spanning the whole width of the signature? I'd like to have it around the text, but not span the whole width of the board.

[Wachtmeister]

Great, just 3 phrases cannot be translated:

Option to show a public countdown to a certain event
Yes
No

Maybe you can phrase these three in an update. Good work!