Date Maths

Matthew, Mark Bowen redid a plugin a while back: MB:// Countdown that might be helpful.

You beat me to it 😉

I had this post open for hours today meaning to reply to it and only just got around to it.

Hope the plugin is of use on this one.

Best wishes,

Mark

Let us know if that helps, Matthew 😊

Yeah (nearly) works perfectly for what I need.

Is there any way to get it to get to out put ‘day’ as two figures - eg: one day left would output as 01 rather than 1?

Thanks guys!

I’ll let Mark answer, since it’s his plugin, moving to plugins forum.

Hi Matthew,

Not tested but hopefully this will work :

{exp:mb_countdown date="19th September 2009" event="My Birthday"}
There are {if days <= "9"}0{/if}{days} days, {hours} hours and {minutes} minutes until {event}
{/exp:mb_countdown}

Hope that helps a bit. As I say I haven’t had time to test it so if it doesn’t work then please do let me know and I’ll take a look into it.

Best wishes,

Mark

Actually scratch that I don’t think that will work as I haven’t added in the conditionals to the plugin. I have to go out just now but will take a look at adding in conditionals to the plugin a little later on and then upload a newer version plugin later on when I (sorry, IF I 😉 ) get it working.

Best wishes,

Mark

Make sure to add something like leadingzero which adds or doesn’t add a leading zero. 😊

Actually thinking about it this should work :

{exp:mb_countdown date="19th September 2009" event="My Birthday"}
There are {if "{days}" <= "9"}0{/if}{days} days, {hours} hours and {minutes} minutes until {event}
{/exp:mb_countdown}

It’s not the exact best way of doing things but will work until I add in some code to the plugin. Should hopefully be safe as it’s only using the days variable which is already safely set in the plugin anyway.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark! Thanks, only just got round to trying this out - works perfectly! Thanks very much.

Cheers,

Matthew

Hi Matthew,

Excellent news. Thanks for letting me know.

When I get the chance I’ll take a look at adding it directly into the plugin instead although for now I don’t really see too much of a problem with it being done like this.

Hope everything else goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark