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Title: Countdown To Calendar Events hack
Newest Release: 10.04.2001
Author: mister
What It Does: Counts down (to the day) to any public events in the calendar. plus any private events a user may have.
Screenshot:

Download: see attached file (countdown1.zip)

Possible Future Enhancements:

span across page, in case of 100's of events
show only private events, only public events, or all
show countdown on actual calendar also

How To Install
1) upload countdown.php to your main forums directory
2) create two templates

countdown_bit

Quote:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="$altcolor"><a href="calendar.php?s=&action=getinfo&eventid=$even t[eventid]"><normalfont>$event[subject]</normalfont></a></td>
<td bgcolor="$altcolor" align="center"><normalfont>$event[eventdate]</normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="$altcolor"><normalfont>$days_till</normalfont></td>
</tr>

countdown
note: all {} values have spaces in them so this forum doesnt parse them...
copy/paste from the included text file if you dont want to search for all the { blah } variables to change in this template

Quote:

{ htmldoctype }
<html>
<head><title>$bbtitle - Countdowns</title>
$headinclude
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
$header

<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{ contenttablewidth }" { tableinvisibleextra } align="center">
<tr>
<td width="100%"><img src="{ imagesfolder }/vb_bullet.gif" alt="" border="0" align="absmiddle">
<normalfont><b><a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">$bbtitle</a> { nav_joiner } Countdowns</b></normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>

<br>

<table cellpadding=4 cellspacing=1 border=0 bgcolor="{ tablebordercolor }" width="90%">

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{ tableheadbgcolor }"><normalfont><b>Event</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{ tableheadbgcolor }" align="center"><normalfont><b>Date</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{ tableheadbgcolor }"><normalfont><b>Countdown</b></normalfont></td>
</tr>

$countdown_bits

</table>

$footer
</body>
</html>

3) create a { nav_joiner } replacement variable. (or just edit that out of the template, and put your own in there... its up to you

4) Enjoy.

#2 10-04-2001, 03:20 AM

Nice, but I had to replace {nav_joiner} with >

Thanks!

mister · #3 10-04-2001, 03:29 AM

oh yea
ill put that in the instructions.

make a replacement variable { nav_joiner } .. or replace it with whatever..

thanks

#4 10-04-2001, 03:44 AM

Also.. Is there a reason it does not span the whole page like normal. its only spans about 80-85%?

ex: http://forums.yourhostsucks.com/countdown.php

#5 10-04-2001, 04:20 AM

One more thing...

You will need to edit online.php or it will look like:
Unknown Location: /countdown.php?

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Open online.php:

Around Line 200 you will see alot of "case" statements

Throw this in there somewhere:

PHP Code:


			case 'countdown':
      $userinfo[where] = "Viewing the <a href='countdown.php?s=$session[sessionhash]'>Countdown</a>";
      break;

Then around line 500 you will see more "case" statements

Throw this in there:

PHP Code:


			case 'countdown.php':
    $userinfo[activity] = 'countdown';
    break;

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(FYI)

mister · #6 10-04-2001, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by YourHostSucks
Also.. Is there a reason it does not span the whole page like normal. its only spans about 80-85%?

ex: http://forums.yourhostsucks.com/countdown.php

i just it up like that

edit this line:

Quote:

and change the 90 to something whatever you want.

#7 10-04-2001, 12:22 PM

Much better

Thanks!...
Now I just need the board to be more than a week old, and get some events happening...

Mark Hewitt · #8 10-04-2001, 12:27 PM

Great hack. What happens if you have like hundreds of events, will it span pages?

mister · #9 10-04-2001, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Mark Hewitt
Great hack. What happens if you have like hundreds of events, will it span pages?

unfortunately, not yet.
maybe ill work this into future releases .. or someone can add that in and give us the code...

i dont need it just yet, so i didnt bother putting it in, but the thought did cross my mind
...

maverick1236 · #10 10-04-2001, 08:35 PM

this would be great for small boards and user birth-days

could u make it so b-days show up?