Sort of Like a counting Block

Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 2:58 am

Before going to PHP-Nuke I was trying to find a counter of some sorts and now I am wondering if anyone may know how or may know of a block that can do the following..

The site I am focusing on is related to diabetes. Someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 40 seconds. Diabetes kills one American every 3 minutes. I want to make a counter that counts this statistics like this..

Does anyone know how or where I can find something like this?

Thank you for the help

Involved Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 252 Location: OKC, OK

Should be able to whip somethng up like that. I will be busy today but maybe can get to it tonight, or maybe a real programmer will step in and have something for you.

You mught want to post in the for hire forum also.

Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:19 pm

Sorry about the delay. Just got back into town.. Thank you for any help you could offer

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 2:11 pm

it will be a bit, something came up and will not have a lot of free time. maybe someone else will step in, anyway its on my list.

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:01 pm

Well this is down and dirty, will play around with it some more. It is also not real time, working on that.

Code:

<?php





/************************************************************************/


/* PHP-NUKE: Web Portal System                                          */


/* ===========================                                          */


/*                                                                      */


/* Copyright (c) 2002 by Francisco Burzi                                */


/* http://phpnuke.org                                                   */


/*                                                                      */


/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */


/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */


/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.       */


/************************************************************************/





if (eregi("block-Diabetes_Counter.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {


    Header("Location: index.php");


    die();


}


// $cts is the time to start counting from


$cts = strtotime("01/01/2004");


$ctn = time(); //now


$ctd = $ctn - $cts; //diffrence in time


$content = "Someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 40 seconds. It kills every 3 minutes<p>";


$content .= "This year alone over ".floor($ctd/40)." have been diagnosed<p>";


$content .= "<b>Over ".floor($ctd/180)." have been killed!</b>";


?>

Let me know good/bad/ugly.

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:03 pm

Woot! hadn't noticed broke a 100 posts. Smile

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:28 pm

Congrats on the 100+ posts.

Got it up and running Thank you.. now I will be working on the cosmetics some.. any tips from anyone that would make an improvement in your eyes please let me know

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:59 am

Well it is down an dirty, I wrote it late and was getting tired and wanted to let you have what I had done so far.

I am more of a coder then a web designer so I was never much good at making things look pretty.

I will fiddel with it a bit more.

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:15 am

Thanx for your help. I unfortunaly am neither a coder nor a designer. I will stick with Nursing its what I do best. I just do webstuff to help get rid of some of the stress which I see from day to day

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:09 am

here is one little thing that makes it look a bit better
change
$content .= "This year alone over ".floor($ctd/40)." have been diagnosed";
$content .= "Over ".floor($ctd/180)." have been killed!";

to

$content .= "This year alone over ".format_number(floor($ctd/40))." have been diagnosed";
$content .= "Over ".format_number(floor($ctd/180))." have been killed!";

that will print the number out like 123,456 instead of 123456

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:25 am

ok new block with minor tweeks.

Code:




<?php





/************************************************************************/


/* PHP-NUKE: Web Portal System                                          */


/* ===========================                                          */


/*                                                                      */


/* Copyright (c) 2002 by Francisco Burzi                                */


/* http://phpnuke.org                                                   */


/*                                                                      */


/* This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify */


/* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by */


/* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.       */


/************************************************************************/





if (eregi("block-Diabetes_Counter.php",$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])) {


    Header("Location: index.php");


    die();


}


$counttimestart = "01/01/2004";


$cts = strtotime($counttimestart); // $cts is the time to start counting from


$ctn = time(); //now


$ctd = $ctn - $cts; //diffrence in time in seconds


$content = "<center>Someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 40 seconds. It kills every 3 minutes.<p>";


$content .= "Since $counttimestart over ".number_format(floor($ctd/40))." have been diagnosed.<p>";


$content .= "<b>Over ".number_format(floor($ctd/180))." have been killed!</center></b>";


?>

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:19 pm

looks Great Thanx