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Hi folks. I’m working on a guest chat feature for my site (guest monitors chat area for an hour at a given pre-announced time) and I am trying to find a good way to deal with the many different timezones my visitors may be coming from. I thought perhaps I could use the Countdown plugin, using the event date information from a weblog entry to set the parameters for the plugin. It would look like this if it worked:

{exp:countdown day="{Event_Date format=%d}" month="{Event_Date format=%m}" year="{Event_Date format=%Y}" hour="{Event_Date format=%H}" event="Chat"}

Can this work, and if so, how would I handle parsing order, or includes, or whatever is needed to grab the weblog data before the plugin gets processed?

Your thoughts are appreciated!

I got it working after realizing that embeds are the last thing parsed. Here’s what my weblog code looks like now

{embed="includes/count_it_down" day="{Event_Date format="%d"}" month="{Event_Date format="%m"}" year="{Event_Date format="%Y"}" hour="{Event_Date format="%H"}"}

This passes the right information to the plug-in, which sits in a tiny template that I pull in at the end.

{exp:countdown day="{embed:day}" month="{embed:month}" year="{embed:year}" hour="{embed:hour}" event="Chat"}

I’m not sure I understand what you did here. Can you please give an example or explain. sounds interesting.

Thanks