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Jun 30.2012

hai, I want to create a timer for online test page which gets the time duration for countdown from database and dosenot reset on page refresh.
i have a timer which gets time from database but it resets on page refresh.
i am using php mysql.
i am a newbee so pls help me.
thanks in advance.

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@007JulienJun 30.2012 — It easy to get a date with javascript from PHP like this

[CODE]
<?php
[COLOR="Blue"]// Convert the timeLimit (coming from data base) to UTC[/COLOR]
$timeLimit=mktime(0,0,0,1,1,2013);
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
[COLOR="Blue"]// Define a javascript interger*1000 for seconds=>milliseconds[/COLOR]
var timeLimit=parseInt("<?php echo $timeLimit ?>");
var dateLimit=new Date(timeLimit*1000);
[COLOR="Blue"]//... Display a countDown with this date[/COLOR]
</script
[/CODE]With the Bionoid countDown this can give something like this
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