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Apr 21.2009

hi all,

i haven’t posted on here before tho i’ve looked around and think this is a great forum. sorry if this is not in the right place.

i’m having an issue creating a counter for a site. i need it to be dymanic, start at 1.25 million and increase by one every seven seconds. i need it to maintain the number (kind of the like the world population clock) and not reset every time a visitor visits the page.

i’m pretty stumped as to how to make this happen or even where to start looking.

thanks in advance for any help!

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@FangApr 21.2009 — <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=fakeCounter;

function fakeCounter() {
var dateBegin=Date.parse(new Date(2009, 3, 21));
var dateNow=Date.parse(new Date());
var count=1250000 + parseInt((dateNow - dateBegin)/7000);
document.getElementById('counter').innerHTML=count;
timerID = window.setInterval(fakeCounter, 7000);
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="counter">1250000</div>
</body>
</html>
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@lungodromauthorApr 21.2009 — wow! that is so awesome! thank you so much. i realized i mistyped...it should be every seven minutes not every seven seconds. to do that, do i just change the 7000?

thanks again so much
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@FangApr 21.2009 — Yes, just change both values to your required time.
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