I'm working on a countdown timer for my website, but can't get the script to work. The creator of the script, PHP F1, hasn't been able to help with it.Question is: Why is the year in the target date (\[code\]$targetDate\[/code\]) variable not making it through to the HTML/JavaScript implement?I'm using the \[code\]mktime()\[/code\] function. No matter whether I put the actual date into the last attribute position (for the year) or whether I put in the date function (like how I've done it in the code below) I just can't get it to display correctly on the front end.I'm not a PHP/JavaScript guru by any means, so this may seem like a really noobie problem, but if anyone can help me with this it'd be greatly appreciated!Here is a live implementation of the code below:http://tripdealio.com/countdown/countdown5.phpHere is the code:\[code\]<?php/* Define your target date here $targetYear = 2011; $targetMonth = 09; $targetDay = 30; $targetHour = 23; $targetMinute= 59; $targetSecond= 59;End target date definition */ // Define date format$dateFormat = "Y-m-d H:i:s";$targetDate = mktime(23,59,59,09,30,date("Y"));$actualDate = time();$secondsDiff = $targetDate - $actualDate;$remainingDay = floor($secondsDiff/60/60/24);$remainingHour = floor(($secondsDiff-($remainingDay*60*60*24))/60/60);$remainingMinutes = floor(($secondsDiff-($remainingDay*60*60*24)-($remainingHour*60*60))/60);$remainingSeconds = floor(($secondsDiff-($remainingDay*60*60*24)-($remainingHour*60*60))-($remainingMinutes*60));$targetDateDisplay = date($dateFormat,$targetDate);$actualDateDisplay = date($dateFormat,$actualDate);?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title>Max's Countdown System</title><link href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3835587/style/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><script type="text/javascript"> var days = <?php echo $remainingDay; ?> var hours = <?php echo $remainingHour; ?> var minutes = <?php echo $remainingMinutes; ?> var seconds = <?php echo $remainingSeconds; ?> function setCountDown (){ seconds--; if (seconds < 0){ minutes--; seconds = 59 } if (minutes < 0){ hours--; minutes = 59 } if (hours < 0){ days--; hours = 23 } document.getElementById("remain").innerHTML = days+" days, "+hours+" hours, "+minutes+" minutes, "+seconds+" seconds"; setTimeout ( "setCountDown()", 1000 );}</script></head><body onload="setCountDown();"><div id="container"> <div id="header"><div id="header_left"></div> <div id="header_main">Max's Countdown System</div><div id="header_right"></div></div> <div id="content"> <table class="countTable"> <tr><td>Target date:</td><td><?php echo $targetDateDisplay; ?></td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" id="remain"><?php echo "$remainingDay days, $remainingHour hours, $remainingMinutes minutes, $remainingSeconds seconds";?></th></tr> <tr><td>Actual date:</td><td><?php echo $actualDateDisplay; ?></td></tr> </table> </div> <div id="footer"><a href="http://www.phpf1.com" target="_blank">Powered by PHP F1</a></div></div></body></html>\[/code\]
Countdown timer not working correctly
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