Days left...

[Eclipse2564]

I'm running a website and I need a simple way to have an item show for example, "Day's left (# number of days left)" and automatically change after each day. Can it be done with HTML?

[dtm32236]

you can do it with JavaScript:

http://www.hashemian.com/tools/javascript-countdown.htm

[Eclipse2564]

you can do it with JavaScript:

http://www.hashemian.com/tools/javascript-countdown.htm

That's what I'm afraid of. I need to be able to display it in a message board post like this one and scripts aren't allowed.

[scragar]

you could use a server side language and have it change an image...

[Eclipse2564]

you could use a server side language and have it change an image...

So you mean like image rotation?

[scragar]

very similar idea, here's a PHP version:

<?
// set header.
header ("Content-type: image/png");

// get time string.
$theTime = strtotime("10 September 2008"); // set your date of choice.
$now = strtotime("now");
$timeLeft = $theTime - $now;
$days = floor($timeLeft/60/60/24);
if($days){
    $theText = ($days==1)?"1 day left":$days . " Day(s) left";
}else{
    $theText = "You've missed it";
};
// create image.
$im = @imagecreatetruecolor(120, 20) or die("Cannot create new image");

// assign colours, using rgb.
$white = imagecolorallocate($im, 255, 255, 255);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im, 0, 0, 0);
// fill image and add text.
imagefill($im, 1, 1, $white);
imagestring($im, 1, 5, 5,  $theText, $black);

// show image.
imagepng($im);
// destroy image to save memory.
imagedestroy($im);
?>

shouldn't be too hard to make versions in other languages.

you can see this in action here