Countdown to date

[furai]

Every year at Inforoo we're counting down the days to the next Bonnaroo. In v4 we used an outside script that worked for a while; it eventually hosed the forum and we had to remove it.

I'm looking for a serviceable script or plugin that counts down to a specified date. Bonus feature may include a modifiable message at the end of the count... like, "It's here!" or "See you on the farm!"

I'm not much of a programmer (yet), but I'm taking classes to learn more. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Tressa]

I would be interested in this one, too.

[furai]

bump

[xLc]

me too

[Tressa]

By searching online, I found a free countdown timer that is customizable. I placed it in an HTML widget on our Custom Home Page (Just the gold rectangle is their code, the text above I added myself.) Would still be nice to have a plugin instead so that we don't have to use an external host.

[Former Member]

In the meantime...... www.tickerfactory.com/ezticker/ticker_designer.php

[Wormopolis]

I have a v4.5 version of a countdown code on www.wormocodes.com. would something like that work? Im assuming you want something to work in posts as well butt headers/footers?

[Wormopolis]

for what its worth, I converted my v4.5 one...

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[Tressa]

Wormopolis can you give an example of the CSS needed to change the colors for the box. I got this working on my test forum, but can't manage to change the colors. Does the CSS go at the bottom of the Style Sheet, or somewhere else?

[Wormopolis]

on one of the tabs it lists the classes I use for default. you just have to add those classes into your CSS

[Tressa]

Mar 7, 2013 23:00:06 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

on one of the tabs it lists the classes I use for default. you just have to add those classes into your CSS

Tried to get this to work, but can't change it from the black box with white text and border. I'm not a coder, may just have punctuation incorrect. Have it on my test forum, but will not put it on my actual forum until I can change the box. What I have in the Style Sheet now will be changed, but was using all the classes trying to get anything to change.

[Wormopolis]

ok so it looks like the forum CSS runs before the plugin CSS, so the plugin default CSS is overriding it. so move the custom CSS into the footer. you will need to surround it with <style></style> tags like the old way. I ill look into making the process easier...