ActionScript 2.0 :: Flash Countdown Ticker Using Server Date
Mar 27, 2008
I am making a countdown ticker that would get the current server date & time and then calculate the remaining time from a target date.
I am using a PHP file to output the current server date & time. Then I use the Flash's loadvars function to get the result and format it as a Date field. However, when I trace for remaining days using targetDate-serverDate, I get NaN as the result.
Below is the code for my flash script as well as the php script.
Flash Code:
Code:
onClipEvent (load) {
myVars = new LoadVars();
// call the load method to load my php page
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Mar 19, 2007
I have successfully managed to follow and implement the flash date countdown timer tutorial given here: [URL]
However I need to get the time from my server rather than the client so that everyone see's the same time and nobody can view the rest of the movie before the deadline has been reached.
Instructions are given to get the tiome from the server using PHP, however our website runs on asp.net so i cannot use this PHP script.
I know I can call the date from my server on an aspx page with:
<% dteDate = Now %>
<%=dteDate %>
Which displays as:
19/03/2007 12:40:29
Is it possible to pull that into the countdown? If so where do I need to start?
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Aug 24, 2009
I was wondering if you guys can help me creating a daily countdown ticker? Like 100 days, 99 days, etc. without me having to go in and change the dates everyday.
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Nov 30, 2009
I have a countdown to a specific date. Mine is 31st of december 2009. But I want a number related to the countdown. So it starts with lets say 8000.Now I have the number related to the amount of days. 62 is 8000, 61 is 7500, 60 is 7000... etc. When you enter the page it checks the countdown date and relates a starting number, every 3 sec. the number goes decreases. I want to add an action to every countdown. I know there must be a better way of coding this...
The best would be that the number decreases realtime, so everytime you go to the page number changes... Does anybody know a good way of doing this or provide a related tutorial link ? I really tried to find an example, but every countdown tutorial is related to time only....
Code:
onEnterFrame = function() {
var today:Date = new Date();
var currentYear = today.getFullYear();
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Sep 24, 2010
1. insert date values and then run a contdown ticker
2. next time user opens swf the value of the ticker should have been adjusted to the date values user inserted first time.
3. New input values should be remembered and old values ignored.
4. no external files wished, flush or shared obj.
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Jan 8, 2009
[URL] how to make a date countdown. I now want to take it a bit further. On my site I have three gears that just continuously turn; now what I want to do is that over a period of time, these symbols change. Like say every 2 hours the symbols change to a different colour or something, and at pacific dates more gears will appear.
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Dec 13, 2010
I would like to get this date countdown working. Right now it is inaccurate in its count.t's off by almost 30 days.
Code:
//Create a date object for 3/25/2011
//HOW TO ADJUST FOR TIMEZONE?
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Mar 2, 2010
I'm making a very simple news ticker that uses XML to load four items: copy text, an image, date and a URL. The script was pieced together from tutorials and a bit of self-teaching, so I know it's probably not great. The AS is pasted below. Everything loads just fine, but the button script returns an "undefined" error. I assume this is because the item is no longer found in the array, but I'm not entirely sure. I also think it may be that the loadMovie method isn't working well with a specific item in the array. Also the link does not work. *Note* I know there are probably more advanced ways to tackle this but I'd like to keep this at my learning level so I can grow with it. :-)
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Sep 24, 2009
I'm sure this is very simple---Unfortunatley, so I am and I can't figure it out.I just want to have a function called at 12am (or perhaps once an hour) -Im trying to use the Date() constructor, but the epoch milliseconds is endlessly confusing(to me)--This is the code I found and have been working with--For some reason--could anyone tell me why? I have to add 21 to the currentDay to get it to work correctly:
Code:
var myTimer:Timer=new Timer(0,999);
myTimer.addEventListener("timer", onAlarm);
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Mar 7, 2011
I need to create a countdown timer to a date and time. I created a timer with the following code from a tutorial online. Problem is, I can't seem to figure out how to make it countdown to a time like 8am on that date. below is teh code I am working with. can anyone help me out?
this.onEnterFrame = function() { var today:Date = new Date(); var currentYear = today.getFullYear(); var currentTime = today.getTime(); var targetDate:Date = new Date(currentYear,05,13); var targetTime = targetDate.getTime(); var timeLeft = targetTime - currentTime; var sec = Math.floor(timeLeft/1000); var min = Math.floor(sec/60); var hrs =
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Feb 28, 2012
I've been using the below code for a countdown timer that ends on 5th April 2012. However when the countdown reaches this date I'll like it to automatically start counting down to 5th April 2013. Currently it goes into minus numbers.
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
var today:Date = new Date();
var currentYear = today.getFullYear();
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Dec 30, 2002
im trying to find a Countdown to date script, for flash,
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Jul 1, 2004
I am trying to countdown to a date next year (2005) and cannot seem to manipulate the code to make it work
Code:
eventDate = new Date( 2005, 06, 16 , 18 , 0 , 0 , 0);
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Oct 10, 2008
I have a Flash countdown timer. I need it to countdown to a date in March of 2009. How do I do this? The currentDate.getFullYear(); is calculating only up to 2008!
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Dec 17, 2010
Let say my dateline is 21st January 2011. I would like to set a countdown from today's date to that date.
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Jul 1, 2004
I am trying to countdown to a date next year (2005) and cannot seem to manipulate the code to make it work Code:eventDate = new Date( 2005, 06, 16 , 18 , 0 , 0 , 0);What am I doing wrong?
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Jun 9, 2004
I can't seem to be able to correctly set a time in addition to the date. When I just set a target date, all is well, but when I try to set an actual time within that date, the timer jumps to it's completion when run.
I think maybe I'm just not understanding the format needed:
Code:
// Date( year, month-1, date [, hour [, minute [, second [, millisecond]]]])
eventDate = new Date( 2004, 05, 12);
how to enter, say, June 12th 2004 at 8:00 am? This must be pretty obvious, but I'm obviously missing something here (I'm a beginner when it comes to flash).
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Mar 21, 2006
I did some site searches but didn't see any posts on this, but did find an excellent princess bride quote thread. I also have been looking at many walkthroughs on inserting php into flash actionscript, but can't seem to get what I want working.URL...[code]I will replace the values with a value from a form post in a different page, but want to see if the values from php will go to the swf.It just creates a blank swf. I really like the countdown timer as is, but just want an input page for others to be able to submit a new time to count down to.
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Jul 24, 2010
What I'd like to do is create a countdown timer to a specific date, but from all the tutorials I've read, I can't seem to find one that will include milliseconds; only a Day:hour:min:sec format.What I'd like is an Hour:min:sec:milliseconds format (the milliseconds whilst considerably pointless, is an aesthetic choice - I'm hoping the frantically changing numbers will display a sense of urgency).I'm using Flash CS4, and the following Actionscript so far:
Actionscript Code:
var endDate:Date = new Date(2012,9,6);var countdownTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000);countdownTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, updateTime);countdownTimer.start();function updateTime(e:TimerEvent):void{ var now:Date = new Date(); var timeLeft:Number = endDate.getTime() - now.getTime(); var seconds:Number = Math.floor(timeLeft / 1000); var minutes:Number = Math.floor(seconds /
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Nov 5, 2010
I've searched the forums for about 45 minutes and can't find the solution. I am looking for script for creating a countdown timer to a certain date and TIME. I've been able to get to the date, but not the time. For instance, if my event begins at 8PM, I want the timer to count down to that time.
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May 16, 2004
I am having some problem understanding the codings for the countdown timer tutorial. [URL]. How do I set a specific date of, maybe a date which is 2 years later or so?
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May 16, 2007
I've been using your tutorial for a date countdown timer with great sucess, although now I realise because it took the date from the computer that is viewing it and because the event is counting to an event in India, it would be wrong because up until now, ive just put the date and time so obivously it would be wrong because it would be that time/date of that timezone. Is there anyway I can alter the actionscript for a specific timezone?
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Dec 6, 2009
I saw this countdown timer [URL] and I want the date to be referenced on a text file.
here is the code;
// first get this current year so this example
// remains valid for some time to come
currentDate = new Date();
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Nov 6, 2008
coding, create a *******' timer to the exact time. I found billionsof tutorials to countdown to a day, but NOBODY can provide a sampleto countdown to a date and time (i.e. Dec. 25 @ 8PM).I need this to countdown to a TV show's premier. And I'm adesigner not a coder... so there has to be a FLA file out therethat I could snag and just update the graphics and plug in a timeand date, and then it counts down once I make a SWF?
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Dec 2, 2007
I have a news ticker that I modelled after the kirupa tutorial that was given:
[URL]
When I run it on my local machine it works just fine the way I expect it to. However when I put it on my website, it does not work at all. I have another flash file (.swf) on my webpage which is just a simple countdown timer and that works just fine so I don't think this problem has anything to do with MIME types.
Here is the code I used to embed the .swf file onto my website:
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("http://428the.calvin.hostingrails.com/XMLParser/sports_ticker1.swf", "headerAnimation", "390", "180", "0", "#FFFFFF");
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Neither of these worked. I just have no idea what I am doing wrong. I don't know if there is something I should be coding differently in my actionscript. I am very new to AS programming. how to get the .swf file to appear on my website would be great.
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Oct 11, 2004
Ive followed the countdown tutorial found here but I have to make the clock follow the server clock instead of the user�s computer clock. How to do it?
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Apr 26, 2011
I've used the .fla provided within this tutorial - this is also found here - to get a countdown that gets its time from the server, as opposed to the time of the clientHowever, making no alterations (other than the year to make it current), it doesn't work, as it alters when you change your computers local timeI have verified this with a friend in the USA, and within another test file where the countdown was set to 8pm server time, it was both showing 8pm for each of us (when i'm GMT and he is EST - 5 hours difference)I have uploaded the files within the same directory on our server, and have also changed the server.load url from both the default 'gettime.php' to a more specific url ofjust in case that made a difference, but alas notHere is the php file used:
PHP Code:
<?php
echo "time=" . time();
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Sep 13, 2011
I have a countdown script that pulls the users time, but I need the server time so visitors can't cheat the clock.[code]How do I get the server date and pass it to the date var startTime?
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Mar 18, 2004
On request by DDD, here's a different version of my countdown script.The difference is that this uses the webservers time, not the clients. This prevents clients from making the script malfunction.
(The old option to use client time is still avalible in the script.)
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Dec 9, 2011
i have a game and when a player clicks play button a countdown starts and game begins when count hits zero,Problem is it counts from the Os/Computer time and their is a difference in secconds from computer to computer causing players to start at differnt times.Is it possible to have the countdown count down by server time to keep players in sync so everyone starts at the same time?Code is writen in actionscript3.0 and Flash cs5.5the code provided currently counts down by remaining Os sec's of the current min so if theirs 30 sec left in the current min it countsdown 30 sectime1 in my database is 60 for 60 sec between games
var timer4:Timer = new Timer(1000);
timer4.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, tick4);
timer4.start();
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