Its easy enough to display a time and have it count down each time someone
views the page(get a timestamp and hardcode it in, then grab a current
timestamp when someone hits the page and compare the two), but if you want a
constant countdown updating constantly then it has to be client side. The
only way around this would be to throw in a meta refresh tag set to refresh
every second. This is not a viable option obviously, and technically it
would still be a client side alteration. You said the countdown could be
done with Javascript which is a client side technology, and is what should
be used to do this.
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> I mean server side.
> What i thought icould do was use a cookie time()
> but how do I extract the value and display it as day hour minute second
> format
> and also how do I change the value of the cookie to reflect the
> different times someone will log on.
> For instance by setting the cookie someone will have access for 3 hours
> but someone who enters the site an hour later will only have access for
> 2.
> Any help would be great Ihave nearly finished this project and this is
> all that is hoiding me up, I am starting to pull my hair out and the
> client is determined that it be done server side.
>
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