Plugin Countdown
This wiki plugin displays a countdown to a future date from a date in the past, together with default or custom text if desired.
See also: PluginCountup
Parameters
Display the time until or after a date and timeIntroduced in Tiki 1. Required parameters are in
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Preferences required: wikiplugin_countdown
| Parameters | Accepted Values | Description | Default | Since |
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| (body of plugin) | Text to append to the countdown. | |||
enddate |
datetime | Target date and time. Multiple formats accepted. | 1 | |
caldays |
(blank) y n |
Will use calendar day difference when set to Yes (y) and time units are not shown.
Result is that tomorrow, for example, is always shown as a one day away even if less than 24 hours
from now. No (n) is the default. |
n | 9.0 |
since |
(blank) y n |
If Yes (y), will display amount of time since the event (default).
If No (n) and if there is body text, will display "is over" or custom text set in text parameter
after body text. |
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show |
(blank)| y| yo| yod| yodh| yodhm| yodhms| o| od| odh| odhm| odhms| d| dh| dhm| dhms| h| hm| hms| m| ms| s | Select: y=years, o=months, d=days, h=hours, m=minutes, s=seconds.
Enter multiple values as: yodhms. Must be in the order of descending length, and a time unit should not be skipped.
If blank, the time is shown down to the hour if not zero. |
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text |
Text that will show with the countdown and body text.
Set to default or leave empty to show "xxx days until/since body text", except that if
the since parameter is set to No (n), "body text is over" will show after the end date has passed.
Also, if no time is shown because of the time units being displayed (for example, only years are shown and it's
less than a year before/after the end date) then "body text will happen in less than a year/happened in the last year" will show.
Or set pipe-separated custom text as follows: before date|before date by less than shortest time unit shown|after date
|after date by less than shortest time unit shown|after date and since set to No (n).
Set to silent for no text. |
9.0 | ||
thousands |
(blank) c p s |
Set the thousands separator for results of 1,000 or more.
Choices are comma (c), decimal (d), space (s), or leave blank for no separator. |
9.0 |
Examples
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1. This code, Copy to clipboard
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Would produce: the project is done! is over |
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2. This code, Copy to clipboard
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Would produce: the project is done! is over |
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3. This code, Copy to clipboard
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Would produce: the project is done! is over |
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Note for above example Uses caldays to count calendar days even if less than 24 hours away | ||
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4. This code, Copy to clipboard
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Would produce: the project start date has passed |
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Note for above example Show custom text instead of time elapsed for a date in the past. | ||
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5. This code, Copy to clipboard
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Would produce: 14 years, 8 months, 17 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes and 13 seconds since the project start date |
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Note for above example Show time elapsed since a date in the past down to the second | ||
If you want to automatically refresh the page every 60 seconds you could either use this code:
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{HTML()}<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60">{HTML}
or get a JavaScript or jQuery plugin to get this done, maybe an Ajax call for the plugin .... if you find a better method than above, please feel free to document here.