Countdown Plugin [library support]

[Matt]

How do I create a countdown? I cannot figure out how to do this even though I installed the plugin.

[Wormopolis]

Dec 11, 2015 18:35:26 GMT -8 nugsy said:

Sorry Wormopolis - I've troubled you with simple stuff I didn't get before.

Here I am again, totally befuddled by what goes where to do what on this plug-in.

I've tinkered for a couple of hours, the best I can get is just the title & end date displayed in black,
on different lines & no actual countdown. I'm obviously doing everything wrong.

Here's what my forum looks like: 



I'd like to get a countdown to new year (midnight) to appear where I've drawn a yellow box, in white text.

If not there, anywhere up the top end - whether on the home page only or all pages.

What bits of code do I put where please? No combination works for me from the different bits and pieces I've seen over the 12 pages here.

This is what my Layout templates > Boards CCS looks like:



If you could just point out what chunks of code go between what lines please, I'd be a happy man.

You are going to want to edit Forum wrapper if you want it in the yellow box because that section I believe is at the top of that.  As for no countdown, what are you putting for the div itself?

Dec 13, 2015 14:21:11 GMT -8 Matt said:

How do I create a countdown? I cannot figure out how to do this even though I installed the plugin.

Just adding the plugin doesnt create any countdowns.  you need to actually create them in the forum HTML or in a post if you want them to appear.  look at the first post.

[strewth78]

bangbangbaseball.boards.net

<countdown class="countdown" title="" timestamp="April 3 2016 01:05 PM -5" message="play ball"/>

I had this problem this time last year… the countdown plugin doesnt work between the weeks that  countries timezone changes daylight saving in early spring.  Europe changed theirs last weekend, whilst the US change theirs next week?  For some reason, this causes the pluging to error and just display the Invalid Date Message.

If i look back through this thread, i also see others having issues with around the end of march in 2014.

[oshawottlovestacos]

Hello,



Is this a creator or a countdown in itself? Can you simplify what I have to do to activate a countdown?

[Kenny ThaKilla]

Completely baffled as to how this works. No idea what goes in the style sheet, or where to make changes to the date/time. I pasted the "example css" in the style sheet, but nothing happened.

Also, trying to get it to show up right above my shoutbox. Is that even possible?

[Kenny ThaKilla]

Going to go ahead and assume this thread has been abandoned.

[Boy_Wonder]

Wormopolis - I'm trying to use the countdown plugin on We Are human, however it isn't working. It also appears to be throwing an error:

An error occurred during a document.ready call: TypeError: timestampArray[2].match is not a function

[Wormopolis]

What did you put as the countdown tag?

[Wormopolis]

May 6, 2017 9:21:53 GMT -8 Boy_Wonder said:

Wormopolis - I'm trying to use the countdown plugin on We Are human, however it isn't working. It also appears to be throwing an error:

An error occurred during a document.ready call: TypeError: timestampArray[2].match is not a function

I figured out where the error is coming from, I just need to figure out why it kepps pushing it to the very bottom of the site no matter where you put it into the template

[Wormopolis]

v2.0.3 submitted

fixed typecast error
updated instructions for placing html object

[Boy_Wonder]

May 6, 2017 20:26:12 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

v2.0.3 submitted

fixed typecast error
updated instructions for placing html object

Do you need to still see my countdown tag?

[Wormopolis]

I have a feeling your tag was fine, but go ahead and show me what you have anyways. If you update the plugin it SHOULD be working however

[Boy_Wonder]

May 7, 2017 16:01:38 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

I have a feeling your tag was fine, but go ahead and show me what you have anyways. If you update the plugin it SHOULD be working however

It is working fine xD - I was just copy and pasting your samples and then altering them

[Wormopolis]

yeah the examples were updated with a closing tag. I guess originally it didnt need it but now it does. I also fixed a function that handled missing year.

[oldfog]

This plugin don't seem to work with mobiles? It works from my PC, but when I view my forum on my mobile, it's just the code that shows up.