Blogging for over 4 years. That’s me. I added a running total to the bottom of the blog.
I noticed Ben had the number of days he’d been blogging on the bottom of his blog and asked how he did it. He had a single line of php that he got from Jonathan Snook:
< ?= round( (time() - strtotime('November 1 2005')) / 60 / 60 / 24);?>
That worked, but it was way too many days for me so I added a little more php.
Here’s what I put in the footer of my pages: (The date is the date of my first post)
Blogging for < ?
$days = round( (time() - strtotime('October 28th, 2002')) / 60 / 60 / 24 );
$years = round($days/ 356);
$daysLeft = $days - ($years * 365);
print "$years years and $daysLeft days";
?>
Four years and 36 days. Crazy. And this post 1406 according my WordPress dashboard.
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Linoge 12.03.06 at 9:59 pm
So copy-pasting that into my blog gets me… well… that - the code, but no output. What am I doing wrong?
Ron 12.04.06 at 9:34 am
You have to put it in a template, not just a blog entry. And this is for WordPress, which is PHP based. If you were using Moveable Type it probably wouldn’t work because MT is perl based.
Linoge 12.04.06 at 9:36 pm
Oh. Now I feel stupid.
Ron 12.04.06 at 9:43 pm
No need to feel stupid. I should have mentioned the system requirements