David Raynes

I've been meaning to implement this for a while, but I only just now got around to it. MTCountdown provides a set of tags that will allow you to place a countdown timer in your MT templates.

Download one of the following files, unpack it, and place countdown.pl in your plugins/ directory.

• countdown.tar.gz
• countdown.zip

The following tags are available:

• MTCountdown: container tag that takes one argument, until, in the following format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
• MTCountdownIfYears / MTCountdownIfDays / MTCountdownIfHours / MTCountdownIfMinutes / MTCountdownIfSeconds: conditional tags that return true if there is a positive value for years, days, etc.
• MTCountdownYears / MTCountdownDays / MTCountdownHours / MTCountdownMinutes / MTCountdownSeconds: the values calculated for the countdown timer.

Usage Example (counting down to my birthday):

<MTCountdown until="2003-05-13 14:00:00">
<MTCountdownIfYears><MTCountdownYears> years, </MTCountdownIfYears>
<MTCountdownIfDays><MTCountdownDays> days, </MTCountdownIfDays>
<MTCountdownIfHours><MTCountdownHours> hours, </MTCountdownIfHours>
<MTCountdownIfMinutes><MTCountdownMinutes> minutes, </MTCountdownIfMinutes>
<MTCountdownIfSeconds><MTCountdownSeconds> seconds</MTCountdownIfSeconds>
 until my birthday.
</MTCountdown>

Update: (2003-06-07 01:10)

• Added tags for weeks ( MTCountdownIfWeeks and MTCountdownWeeks ).

Update: (2003-06-23 21:51)

• Added new MTCountup tags (they work just like MTCountdown, but counting from a past date)
• To make things a little less confusing, MTCountdown and MTCountup both take the date argument now (instead of until)
• date can now include embedded MT tags (e.g. [MTTag ...])