ASP Countdown timer

[benrob82]

Hi,

I'm creating a countdown timer to a dynamic date, it reads a date from a db and then counts down to that date. I need to know once the date has been reached how i then display a message stating that the users member ship is up.............any ideas?

Also is the field I want to dynamically enter is called membership_start_date but adding it in the normal manner i.e.

<%
dim strDate
strDate = Date()

Response.Write DateDiff("d", strDate, <%=membership_start_date%>) & " days until your membership expires "
%>


is producing an error. Any help would be great.
Thanks

 

[DotNetGnat]

what error are you getting...

try some hardcoded value and see if it working...i mean something like...

Response.Write DateDiff("d", strDate, "09/10/2005") & " days until your membership expires "

-DNG

 

[benrob82]

no that works fine, adding a real value produces the correct response, it may be more to do with the value not being passed across correctly

 

[DotNetGnat]

yes i guessed that...make sure you have the value for membership_start_date

try this:

<%
dim strDate
strDate = Date()

response.write membership_start_date

Response.Write DateDiff("d", strDate, <%=membership_start_date%>) & " days until your membership expires "
%>

-DNG

 

[Sheco]

You've got an extra set of script delimmitters on that...

<%
dim strDate
strDate = Date()

Response.Write DateDiff("d", strDate, [highlight]<%=[/highlight]membership_start_date[highlight]%>[/highlight]) & " days until your membership expires "
%>

Wouldnt you rather have:

<%
dim strDate
strDate = Date()

Response.Write DateDiff("d", strDate, [highlight]membership_start_date[/highlight]) & " days until your membership expires "
%>

And you could skip a step like this:

Response.Write DateDiff("d", [highlight]Date[/highlight], membership_start_date)  _
               & " days until your membership expires "

 

[benrob82]

worked a treat, thanks

 

[Sheco]

Great! ... but which one worked?