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Countup from a Date

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I've been using a Javascript to do the same thing for years but have always wanted to do the same thing in PHP -- just never got around to writing it. Fortunately, ScriptyGoddess did it for me. Haven't actually implemented it but it looks like it should work.

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  1. <?
  2. // enter start date below like this: "January 2, 2001"
  3. $start = "January 29, 2002";
  4. // enter string of what this start date is.
  5. $text = "have passed since I had a fulltime job.";
  6.  
  7. //--------------------------
  8. $now = strtotime ("now");
  9. $then = strtotime ("$start");
  10. $difference = $now - $then ;
  11. $num = $difference/86400;
  12. $days = intval($num);
  13. $num2 = ($num - $days)*24;
  14. $hours = intval($num2);
  15. $num3 = ($num2 - $hours)*60;
  16. $mins = intval($num3);
  17. $num4 = ($num3 - $mins)*60;
  18. $secs = intval($num4);
  19. ?>
  20.  
  21. <p>
  22. <? echo $days ?> days,
  23. <? echo $hours ?> hours,
  24. <? echo $mins ?> minutes,
  25. <? echo $secs ?> seconds
  26. <? echo $text ?>
  27. </p>

URL: http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/05/23/count-up-timer-in-php/

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