LFS Forum - need help with another peice of code (happyhour))

#1 - chrizza132

need help with another peice of code (happyhour))

Sun 28 Nov 2010, 06:24

hi guys i just need your help again im up to coding happyhour now its all working counts down proper and every thing what im stuck on is

getting it to show the countdown to happyhour due to its automatic

bassicly what i want is when someone types the command !happyhour i want it to show "HappyHour Starts in : (TIME)" and i cant get it to work

any ideas?

thanks chris

#2 - Dygear

Sun 28 Nov 2010, 23:01

It just refers to one hour each day right? Like happy hour is 7pm every day, right?

#3 - chrizza132

Sun 28 Nov 2010, 23:13

Quote from Dygear :It just refers to one hour each day right? Like happy hour is 7pm every day, right?

no every 6 hours

so on insim start up it counts down from 6hours once it reaches 0 happyhour starts automatticly then it resets back to 6 hours happyhour runs for 1 hour
then starts again once the timer hits 0

#4 - MadCatX

Sun 28 Nov 2010, 23:15

So what exactly is the problem? You seem to have figured it out already. I take it you store the time remaining to happy hour in seconds, are you having problems converting it to HH:MM:SS?

#5 - Dygear

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 04:34

So you already know the time (in seconds) when the next happy hour starts and you know how to get the current time in seconds. What you must do then is take away the happy hour time from the current time. The remainder will be the amount of time in seconds until the next happy hour.

#6 - skywatcher122

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 05:09

set a System.DateNow Perhaps?

#7 - Dygear

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 05:54

Pretty sure this is from Allied Modders, I think AMX Mod X, I just converted it to PHP a long time ago. Returns seconds into a string that is nice and readable.



<?php 
class Time {
    const SECONDS_IN_MINUTE =     60;
    const SECONDS_IN_HOUR   =   3600;
    const SECONDS_IN_DAY    =  86400;
    const SECONDS_IN_WEEK   = 604800;
    public static function getTimeLen($s) {
        if ($s > 0) {
            $w = $d = $h = $m = 0; $element = array();

            $w = round($s / self::SECONDS_IN_WEEK);
            if ($w > 0) $element[] = sprintf('%d %s', $w, ($w == 1) ? 'week' : 'weeks');
            $s -= $w * self::SECONDS_IN_WEEK;
            $d = round($s / self::SECONDS_IN_DAY);
            if ($d > 0) $element[] = sprintf('%d %s', $d, ($d == 1) ? 'day' : 'days');
            $s -= $d * self::SECONDS_IN_DAY;
            $h = round($s / self::SECONDS_IN_HOUR);
            if ($h > 0) $element[] = sprintf('%d %s', $h, ($h == 1) ? 'hour' : 'hours');
            $s -= $h * self::SECONDS_IN_HOUR;
            $m = round($s / self::SECONDS_IN_MINUTE);
            if ($m > 0) $element[] = sprintf('%d %s', $m, ($m == 1) ? 'minute' : 'minutes');
            $s -= $m * self::SECONDS_IN_MINUTE;
            if ($s > 0) $element[] = sprintf('%d %s', $s, ($s == 1) ? 'second' : 'seconds');

            switch(count($element)) {
                case 1: return sprintf("%s", $element[0]);
                case 2: return sprintf("%s & %s", $element[0], $element[1]);
                case 3: return sprintf("%s, %s & %s", $element[0], $element[1], $element[2]);
                case 4: return sprintf("%s, %s, %s & %s", $element[0], $element[1], $element[2], $element[3]);
                case 5: return sprintf("%s, %s, %s, %s & %s", $element[0], $element[1], $element[2], $element[3], $element[4]);
            }
        }
    }
}
?>

#8 - chrizza132

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 06:24

my mate just told me that we are having trouble getting the timers value so everything else is workin fine just havin troble getting the timer value

hope that makes sense

#9 - MadCatX

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 14:13

In what language do you write your app? Possibly C#?

#10 - Dygear

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 15:50

No, that was PHP.

#11 - PoVo

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 16:45

Quote from Dygear :No, that was PHP.

I think he meant it to the thread creator.

And yes it's C#

#12 - MadCatX

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 20:03

Yes, I was asking the thread's author, I of course can recognize PHP when I see it

I guess that using C# Timers is not the best idea in this case, because you cannot get any value from it. My C# experience is very limited, so I cannot offer you any better solution, but here is what I'd do if I had to use timers.


int secsToHappyHour = 21600;      //6hrs = 21600 seconds

private void happyHourTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    secsToHappyHour--;
    if(secsToHappyHour < 1)
    {
         doSomething();
    }
}

If you set interval of HappyHourTimer to 1000, it should decrement secsToHappyHour every second and once it reaches zero, it does something. If you want to display the time remaining to HH, just convert the secsToHappyHour to HH:MM:SS and display it.

#13 - Gegry1992

Mon 29 Nov 2010, 21:27

It's C yeah
Not PHP