Mod Name:Countdown Panel
Author: Craig Dewar (Fangree_Craig)
Site: Fangree Productions
Email: admin@fangree.co.uk


This Mod was created for PHP-Fusion V7 Core Edition, written by Nick Jones (aka Digitanium), and Released as free software without warranties under GNU Affero GPL v3.
Take a look at gpl.txt for more detail.
All new images are © Fangree Productions
Feel free to redistribute or modify this mod, but please Remember to leave my credit and don't remove this file from the mod package.

NOTES & Features
A Countdown panel that lets you change important variables so you can countdown for any event.


Installation:

Open countdown.js in your file editor 

At line 20 look for: <script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.fangree.co.uk/countdown.js"></script> 

change http://www.fangree.co.uk/countdown.js  to your location where you will uploaded the countdown.js file to. eg. http://www.yoursite.com/countdown.js


Upload countdown.js to your route.

 Upload folder Countdown_panel to your sites infusions folder
Go to admin >>> System Admin >>>Panels and select [ Add New Panel ] choose countdown_panel from the list save, enable panel and enjoy.

Setting up your Countdown

Open countdown_panel.php

To Edit The Countdown panel open countdown_panel.php and edit the following code to suit your countdown.

around lines 16,17 find,

<script language='JavaScript'>
TargetDate = '12/25/2007 12:00 AM';
BackColor = '#FFFFFF optacity(0.5)';
ForeColor = 'blue';
CountActive = true;
CountStepper = -1;
LeadingZero = true;
DisplayFormat = '%%D%% Days, %%H%% Hours, %%M%% Minutes, and %%S%% Seconds Until christmas Day!';
FinishMessage = ' Merry Christmas!';
</script>

This is the part you change to start your countdown.


Explanation
TargetDate is the date and time you wish the countdown to end.

BackColor is the background colour for the background of the countdown script.

ForeColor is the Countdown Text Colour.

CountActive is to enable or disable the countdown, you will find you probably will never need to change this.

LoadinZero meens if you want to display 00 at the end of each minute eg 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0 or 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,60

DisplayFormat is the way the date will be displayed this is Days,hours,Minutes, and Seconds by default, however if you know

what you are doing you can change the format.

Finish Message this is the message that will read when your countdown has ended or reached the TargetDate.

CHANGELOG:
v1.00
- First public release


If you require Support using this mod visit the Fangree Productions Forums at
http://www.fangree.co.uk/
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