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October 21st, 2008 |
Recently at work, I was asked to add a Countdown Timer to a few of our pages giving the time remaining until a Sale kicked in. While I could have whipped this up pretty quickly in Javascript, I decided to use the opportunity to expand my Flash knowledge a little.
One of my key considerations was using the Server's time, rather than the time of the User's system clock. This meant passing two Timestamps from PHP to Flash, which luckily is very easy to do. I'll walk you through the entire design process here. I'll be using Flash CS3, and ActionScript 2.0.
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