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1. robcub
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've found a great little bit of PHP that will calculate and display how many days there are left until a certain date in the future.

   <?
     $day   = 11    ; // Day of the countdown
     $month = 3;      // Month of the countdown
     $year  = 2011;   // Year of the countdown
     $hour  = 23;     // Hour of the day (east coast time)
   
     $calculation = ((mktime ($hour,0,0,$month,$day,$year) - time(void))/3600);
     $hours = (int)$calculation;
     $days  = (int)($hours/24);
   ?>
   
   <p> <?=$days?> days</span> left to go</p>

   Thank you, Joe Crawford http://lab.artlung.com/countdown/

   My problem is I want to be able to specify the date that is being counted down to using Custom Fields specific to a particular post.

   So I'll have 3 custom field Names called "countdown-date", "countdown-month" and "countdown-year" and get them to spit out the values in the PHP above.

   So far my miserable PHP skills have come up with stuff like:

   <?
     $day   = <?php get_post_meta($post->ID, 'countdown-date', true); ?>    ; // Day of the countdown
     $month = 3;      // Month of the countdown
     $year  = 2011;   // Year of the countdown
     $hour  = 23;     // Hour of the day (east coast time)
   ...

   But these give me error messages. I hope someone would know how to do this.

   This is within the loop.

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   the error message is because this is already php code (starting with the php short tag <? )and you are adding a new php tag;

   try:

   <?php
     $day   = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'countdown-date', true); // Day of the countdown
     $month = 3;      // Month of the countdown

   etc. (changed the php short tag to a full one)

3. robcub
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you so much, alchymyth, that works like a dream.

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