Christmas Challenge: Day 9

Chippiewill · 09-12-2011, 06:51 PM

Today's Challenge is another coding one (Obviously!). You must create a web script (With only, HTML PHP, MySQL and Javascript) which counts down to December 25th 2011, 00:00:00. You may think, wow this is easy, and it is, however you are not being judged on speed, no, you are being judged on:

- Quality of coding
- Features of Script
- Accuracy of time (If you take into account latency that will be very interesting)

The best scripts will either be, Javascript auto updating, or PHP with GD libraries to make a dynamic image.

Please do make an attempt even if you don't think you're very good, you might learn something!

PRIZE: TWO months of Christmas VIP

Note: This is not an Official Habbox Competition

triston220 · 11-12-2011, 02:33 PM

These coding competitions are a great idea.

Chippiewill · 11-12-2011, 07:08 PM

If I receive no entry of this challenge I will run the months over onto something else.

Also if people have no idea how to do this then:

1324771200 - time() = Number of seconds until christmas day

Divide this by 60, the remainder is your number of seconds
Divide that by 60, the remainder is the number of minutes
Divide that by 24 to find the number of days , the remainder is the number of hours

Originally Posted by triston220

These coding competitions are a great idea.

Thanks.

Chippiewill · 13-12-2011, 03:54 PM

Well, nobody took a bite unfortunately. I just chucked this together in about ten minutes:

PHP Code:


<?php
$time = 1324771200 - time();

$times = $time % 60;
$time = floor($time / 60);

$timem = $time % 60;
$time = floor($time / 60);

$timeh = $time % 24;
$time = floor($time / 24);

print($time." Days, ".$timeh." Hours, ".$timem." Minutes, ".$times." Seconds.");
?>

Which results in something like "11 Days, 8 Hours, 6 Minutes, 43 Seconds."

I might still be willing to offer a prize for prettying it

Chippiewill · 13-12-2011, 04:21 PM

Got bored and fixed some errors for when the time till christmas is negative and I made it so it fixes itself every news years day for the next year:

PHP Code:


<?php
$christmas = mktime(0,0,0,12,25,date("Y")); // Finds the timestamp for Christmas at midnight of the current year (Hours,Minutes,Seconds,Months,Days,Year), date("Y") finds the current year

$time = $christmas - time(); //Finds seconds between Christmas at midnight and the time now.

if($time <0) {print("Merry Christmas");} // Prevents errors if it is beyond midnight

else { // Adds an exception

$times = $time % 60; // Finds the number of seconds as a result of finding the remainder of dividing by 60
$time = floor($time / 60); // Effectively removes those seconds from the total by dividing by 60 and then flooring

$timem = $time % 60; // Finds the number of minutes as a result of finding the remainder of dividing by 60
$time = floor($time / 60); // Effectively removes those minutes from the total by dividing by 60 and then flooring

$timeh = $time % 24; // Finds the number of hours as a result of finding the remainder of dividing by 24
$time = floor($time / 24); // The number of hours is the floored value of dividing the number of hours by 24

print($time." Days, ".$timeh." Hours, ".$timem." Minutes, ".$times." Seconds.");

}
// The End
?>