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hi Mark!

That would be great idea to add to the plugin a “time” parameter, i mean not all events start at midnight..
Do you think that’s possible to make it?

With respect,
Dmitry Romanovsky

Hi Dmity,

I’ll take a look at this as you should just be able to specify the time in the date parameter as it is using human readable time formats so something like :

should work although I did just test it and seems I can only get it to work with PM times for some reason. Will have to check out why that’s happening.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Dmitry,

Seems I hadn’t added in the full now() date in the plugin so whilst you could indeed supply the time in the parameter it wouldn’t have made full sense to the calculations inside the plugin. Hopefully now you should be able to specify the full time using any of the supported date / time formats for the strtotime() PHP function.

i can’t believe you reacted so fast!
Yes it works great now, thank you!

Dmitry

Dmitry - 07 June 2011 01:05 PM

i can’t believe you reacted so fast!
Yes it works great now, thank you!

Dmitry

No problem at all.

Let me know if you have any problems with it in the future though. It’s supposed to work with any of the supported date / time functions of the strtotime function although I do believe some of the weirder ones might not be working.

That said I don’t think many people would ever use those anyway so hopefully this should never be an issue.

Best wishes,

Mark

I have this on all my entries: “43 years, 1 month, 10 days, 15 hours, and 24 minutes left until My Birthday”

I use this time format
{entry_date format=’%j%S %F %Y %g:%i %a’}

It looks like
{exp:mb_countdown
date=”{entry_date format=’%j%S %F %Y %g:%i %a’}”
event=“My Birthday”}
{if years > 0}{years} year{if years > 1}s{/if}, {/if}{if months > 0}{months} month{if months > 1}s{/if}, {/if}{if days > 0}{days} day{if days > 1}s{/if}, {/if}{if hours > 0}{hours} hour{if hours > 1}s{/if}, {/if}{if hours <= 0}{minutes} minutes{/if}{if hours > 0}{if minutes > 0}and {minutes} minute{if minutes > 1}s{/if}{/if}{/if} left until {event}
{/exp:mb_countdown}

Hi 24here,

Sorry but I’m not too sure what your question is here?

Are you saying that every single entry is coming out with the exact same output?

If so then I noticed above that you are using the {entry_date} tag which I must say I haven’t tested in this plugin. It was really meant for a static (hand written) date to be supplied.

I’ll take a look and try it this end if that is the case though and see if it can be made to do that though.

Please let me know if that is indeed the problem here.

Best wishes,

Mark

Also one other question would be, do you have the code above placed inside a Channel Entries tag? If not then this isn’t going to work as you are supplying an {entry_date} tag which will only come from being placed inside a Channel Entries tag.

I just checked though and it should all work. I tested using this code below :

You would obviously need to change the channel=“default_site” parameter to reflect your Channel name first though and make sure that you use the show_future_entries=“yes” parameter in order for future entries to work however that should work for you.

Please let me know if it doesn’t though.

Best wishes,

Mark