Automated count down - help!

[General Doom]

Hey all,

I am trying to get time to count down dynamically (no need to refresh page) instead of statically, but just can't figure it out for the life of me.

Basically when somone adds something to the construction que it calculates the time to build it in seconds (lets say 3600 seconds) and put's it into the database:

time()+3600

etc, then, when I use a function to turn this into hours mins seconds etc and display it on the construction page and it "counts down" but only when the user refreshes the page.

Is there a way using JS or jQuery to make this dynamic? Just the displaying of the time?

Hope I explained this well enough!

[Djkanna]

http://makewebgames.io/showthread.php/38968-jQuery-Second-Minute-Countdown.

[Dave]

Ironic that I just spent ages trying to find that thread for a project of my own!

[a_bertrand]

Well just tried "Countdown" in the search in the thread mentioned came 2nd.

[General Doom]

Okay, so i havn't looked at or used jQuery before, so how do I get that to take the input from the database as a timestamp?

Also, can't seem to get it to countdown =S

[Djkanna]

Well just tried "Countdown" in the search in the thread mentioned came 2nd.

Moral of the story, search people search... :P

Okay, so i havn't looked at or used jQuery before, so how do I get that to take the input from the database as a timestamp?

Also, can't seem to get it to countdown =S

Well you need to include jQuery.

Then it all depends on which version of the code on that topic you are using.

[General Doom]

Sorry for highly noobish questions!

using the first version and have downloaded and included jquery into it, still no countdown.

[General Doom]

Nevermind, have it working now.

So, how do I get the data from the database and put it into the JS?

Im using PHP and mySQL for the rest of the script if that changes / help?