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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: 1000ideen[/u][p]Thanks, you are so right with "You are limited only by your imagination..."

After writing this I got one more idea. What I hope someone to develope is a podcast plugin and if it is for GL then it should be one that is 3 times better than any other.

So I have 2 things in mind. The one is this countdown and the other thing is a teaser box telling you intelligent random things like "did you know about ...?"  
http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=9&showtopic=63254

I put some more ideas into the countdown timer:

[code]function phpblock_podcastcountdown() {

global $LANG01, $LANG_WHATSNEW;

// find stories in topic e.g. "podcast" with future date, compare if this date is in the future or present time plus 1 hour.
Iif there are more than 1 stories choose the next story, if there is no story then don't activate block

//end of countdown = story_date
$countdown_end = {story_date};

// countdown event = story_title
$countdown_event = till the next podcast: {story_title};

$text_on_countdown_event = The podcast is on!

$retval .= ' ';

$now = strtotime ("now");
$then = strtotime ("$countdown_end");
$difference = $then - $now;
$num = $difference/86400;
$days = intval($num);
$num2 = ($num - $days)*24;
$hours = intval($num2);
$num3 = ($num2 - $hours)*60;
$mins = intval($num3);
$num4 = ($num3 - $mins)*60;
$secs = intval($num4);
if ($days>0 || $hours>0 || $minutes>0 || $seconds>0) {
$retval = $days . $LANG_WHATSNEW[days]'' . $hours .  $LANG_WHATSNEW[hours]' ' . $mins . $LANG_WHATSNEW[minutes]'  <br>' . $secs . $LANG01[92]' ' . $countdown_event;
}
else if (($days==0) && ($hours==0 || $minutes<=0 || $seconds<=0)) {
$retval .= $text_on_countdown_event;
}
else {
//deactivate block!
}

return $retval;
}
?> 
[/code]

Uh, this is code gibberish but you get the idea? One should not have to creep into the lib-custom every time to change anything and it should be international.

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I`m sorry but my knowledge is more on ideas and concepts rather than detailed programming...

Indeed you find scripts on the net. The above "Jeremy's countdown timer " turned out to be by Jennifer the scriptygoddess. http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2002/05/23/count-up-timer-in-php/[/p][/QUOTE]

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