add README to jquery_countdown

Hi,

the 7.x Version has a "jQuery Countdown Block". So what are you missing here ?

Hi HongPong,

sorry but i dont understand what you want, so i dont want to watch line by line of a patch. Tell me your problem and we had a base for discussion.
thanks
Dennis

Hi,

now i understand what you want. Why not use views for this ? - you can create multiple views blocks - but you need a content type with a date field for that.
alternativly you can try http://drupal.org/project/multiblock

Hi,

sure feel free to write a documentation page this is a good idea.

Hi, I'm a bit new to this, so please excuse me if I've missed anything.

I've successfully implemented the jquery_countdown_add example with the 10 second countdown and an extended 10 minute variation on the same using 600 instead of 10 so as to avoid the annoying popup 10 seconds after loading my test page (aka my homepage).

However I'm having trouble getting to grips with the rest of the syntax and can't seem to find any relevant example code to help. Or find the code from the built in jquery-countdown-block.

Could someone document other options and how to use them, even if it just explains how to port the original jquery_countdown options to Drupal using jquery_countdown_add().

My attempt at trying to explain it to myself goes like this:

+<?php
+  echo '<div class="countdown">10 seconds!</div>';
+  jquery_countdown_add(".countdown", array("until" => 10, "onExpiry" => "finished"));
+  drupal_add_js("function finished() { alert('You are done!'); }", 'inline');
+?>


++ Breakdown of the code above is like

+<?php

++<?php opens the php code section

+  echo '<div class="countdown">10 seconds!</div>';

++ echo ' . . . ' sends some html to the client
++ div class="countdown" sets the active div
++ class="countdown" is like class="<$cid>"
++ 10 seconds! Is just a label really

+  jquery_countdown_add(".countdown", array("until" => 10, "onExpiry" => "finished"));

++ jquery_countdown_add() is a function
++ it takes ".countdown", array("until" => 10, "onExpiry" => "finished")
++ as a set of options
++
++ that breaks down to ".countdown" and array()
++ ".countdown" I think refers to the div / class
++ array() is another function which takes "until" => 10 and "onExpiry" => "finished"

+  drupal_add_js("function finished() { alert('You are done!'); }", 'inline');

++ finally drupal_add_js() is a function which is used in this case to finish off
++ "function finished() calls the action for onExpiry in the code above
++ {alert('You are done!');}" calls for alert('You are done!'); which creates a popup with 
++ the text 'You are done!'
++ 'inline' is a formatting parameter

I realise this could be totally wrong. Thanks in advance.

Will.