14 Posts
10 years ago
1
Topic
I'm wanting to know if this already exists or how I might go about creating such a thing...
I want a countdown element in my content which counts down to a state change (such as unpublish).
The best example is a Sales Event - Perhaps one page saying 20% Off These Select Items with a big count down clock - which upon reaching zero unpublishes the page or perhaps triggers a conditional field.
Any ideas?
14 Posts
10 years ago
0
Level 1
@Veeco and Vnuchaev...
For my personal use, I can insert a javascript (similar to THIS HERE) into the template doc (using SD Simple Simon).
Then, I go in and change
var target_date = new Date("Aug 15, 2019").getTime();
to something like
var target_date = new Date("<?php echo $cck->renderField('field_name') ?>").getTime();
with "field_name" being the name of the date-type field you plan to use. For me it will be an unpublish date.
I hope this helps others, if I screwed something up, please correct me.
For more on templating, See James Morrell's superb tutorial here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPMnAbi1-8w
For my personal use, I can insert a javascript (similar to THIS HERE) into the template doc (using SD Simple Simon).
Then, I go in and change
var target_date = new Date("Aug 15, 2019").getTime();
to something like
var target_date = new Date("<?php echo $cck->renderField('field_name') ?>").getTime();
with "field_name" being the name of the date-type field you plan to use. For me it will be an unpublish date.
I hope this helps others, if I screwed something up, please correct me.
For more on templating, See James Morrell's superb tutorial here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPMnAbi1-8w