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I'm looking for a simple-to-edit countdown script that counts down in months, days, and hours to a date. (Sept 28th 2005, if you want to already edit it for me ^.^)

Thanks so much!

Try this:
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Javascript for text-generation is implicitly fround upon by search engines, particularly google. In essence, it is a form of 'cloaking', albeit with generally the opposite affect of most cloak operations.

Furthermore, I couldn't find a single *simple* PHP countdown script, so I simply re-created the one i made a few years ago...this one is far more elegant I might add.

[code]<?php
// Copyright: None | All rights relinquished.
// License: Public Domain

function countdown($month, $day, $year, $hr, $min)
{
// NOTE: UNIX time is in seconds from the first year the
// UNIX kernel was compiled: 1/1/1970. As such, vanishingly
// few modern machines can handle UNIX dates in excess of
// 2036, as at this time you will run into various size
// limitations, much like Y2K, only worse :p
$unix_sec = mktime($hr, $min, 0, $month, $day, $year, -1);
$current_sec = time();

$left = abs($unix_sec - $current_sec);

if ($left <= 0)
{
return "0 seconds left.";
}

/* This could be made *far* smaller by use of a recursive algorithm, but what's the point? */
$time['abs_d'] = floor($left / (3600 * 24));
$time['mon'] = floor($time['abs_d'] / 30);
$time['d'] = $time['abs_d'] - ($time['mon'] * 30);
$time['h'] = floor(($left - ($time['abs_d'] * 3600 * 24)) / 3600);
$time['m'] = floor(($left - ($time['abs_d'] * 3600 * 24) - ($time['h'] * 3600)) / 60);

return $time;
}

/* ----- Example ----- */
$count = countdown(9, 28, 2005, 9, 35);

print "<h1>Time remaining: $count[abs_d] days, or $count[mon] months, $count[d] days $count[h] hours $count[m] minutes </h1>\n";

/* ------ Results ------ */
// Time remaining: 182 days, or 6 months, 2 days 0 hours 32 minutes
?>
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