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Page Session Countdown Timer

I wrote a PHP code that kills the session after 5 minuets from creation.

I would like to display a timer in the corner of the page that shows the user how many minutes:seconds till the session times out. Are there any good examples out there?

Solution

  • Something like this? http://keith-wood.name/countdown.html

    There you have a simple example showing how to use it:

    var newYear = new Date(); 
newYear = new Date(newYear.getFullYear() + 1, 1 - 1, 1); 
$('#defaultCountdown').countdown({until: newYear});

    So now what we need is a UNIX timestamp (time when session will end). Then we can modify it like this:

    var endOfSession = new Date(youtitmestamp * 1000); // timestamp is in seconds and we need miliseconds
$('#defaultCountdown').countdown({until: endOfSession});

    Hope it helped!