PHP countdown to 5 mins after current time?

py2006

Hi guys,

I will like to insert a countdown timer of 5 mins after form has been submitted to a php page.

At the moment when they submit the form they see the date and time they submitted:

echo date("M d Y H:i", time()) ";

Any ideas?

seamus

I'm not really sure what you mean.

Do you want to display a timer to the end-user which counts down five minutes, or do you want to count down five minutes in the background (e.g. to prevent them submitting a form again for five minutes)?

py2006

seamus wrote: »

I'm not really sure what you mean.

Do you want to display a timer to the end-user which counts down five minutes, or do you want to count down five minutes in the background (e.g. to prevent them submitting a form again for five minutes)?

The former!

So once the form is submitted, they are taken to the php page which displays what they have filled out and also a countdown starting at 5.00 and going down in secs to 0.

Is that possible?

seamus

Not in PHP, you'd be looking for a piece of simple javascript to do that. Google for a "countdown timer" or something like that, there will be literally thousands of code samples to download.

Webmonkey

py2006 wrote: »

The former!

So once the form is submitted, they are taken to the php page which displays what they have filled out and also a countdown starting at 5.00 and going down in secs to 0.

Is that possible?

What's the count down for?

I'd consider using javascript for that instead.

py2006

Oh really? I didn't realise that. It doesn't serve any real purpose, just something to add.

I thought maybe it could be done in php as I am trying to learn it.

Webmonkey

py2006 wrote: »

Oh really? I didn't realise that. It doesn't serve any real purpose, just something to add.

I thought maybe it could be done in php as I am trying to learn it.

PHP is server side so once it's generated on the server and sent to the browser, PHP can't do anymore. It's up to the client then.

py2006

Webmonkey wrote: »

PHP is server side so once it's generated on the server and sent to the browser, PHP can't do anymore. It's up to the client then.

Ah that makes sense.

Actually while I have your undivided attention. Can you think of any reason why the word Array appears when I get the results of a an array.

The array works itself no problem. It just has this extra word thrown in haha

Webmonkey

You are probably just printing the array. You can only print the elements of it.

[php]
echo print_r($myArray);
[/php]

That would show the contents of the array.

If you want to do it in a nice way you will have to iterate over the array elements and construct your own way of displaying the data using the elements of the array.

py2006

Webmonkey wrote: »

You are probably just printing the array. You can only print the elements of it.

[php]
echo print_r($myArray);
[/php]

That would show the contents of the array.

If you want to do it in a nice way you will have to iterate over the array elements and construct your own way of displaying the data using the elements of the array.

Well the following is taking info from 2 checkboxes:

$pricelist_Books = "3.99";

if(isset($_POST['book']))
 
 {
	for ($i=0; $i<count($_POST['book']);$i++) {
		echo "<br />" . $_POST['book'][$i] . "<br /><br />". "<div id=\"prices\">" . "(". "&#8364;". $pricelist_Book . " " . "each" . ")" . "</div>" ."<br /><br />";
	}
 }
 
 $TotalBookPrice = count($_POST['book']) * $pricelist_Book ;
 echo "Total: " . "&#8364;" . number_format($TotalBookPrice, 2) . " <br /><br />";

It works fine except for the word ARRAY appearing. When neither checkbox is selected then it doesn't show up!

Creamy Goodness

use var_dump($var); to see what data type the variable is.

if it's printing out Array, it's an array and you'll need to go back and debug your code.

for example: $pricelist_Books = "3.99"; should be $pricelist_Books = 3.99; it's a floating point number and not a string, so when you do $TotalBookPrice = count($_POST) * $pricelist_Book ; you're multiplying a integer (the count) by a string value. not sure if this is your problem but it's not good practice.