JavaScript Help

***The Grunt*** · July 10th, 2004, 04:57 AM

I'm sure someone here must know some javascript, and I am hoping to get some help making something in it. Can someone possibly write me a code? Here is what I want.

I need a script that goes into the <head> , and then allows me to place the date anywhere in the page with another insertable thingy. I am not to up on javascript so try and stay with me... I need it to place JUST the date.

Like,

<head>
<script type=javascript
(blabda bldab
</script>

<body>

Today's date is <script that inserts date>

then I have a calendar already built below this.

BTW, this is ALL for my father, who runs a website for Special Olympics... for free... So you might be able to guess he doesn't work too teribly hard on it, and considers himself to old to learn a bunch of new stuff. If this was all for myself I would most certainly go and learn it myself, but I do not want to take the time to learn JS just for this. Thanks for any help...

**hiddeninclouds** · July 10th, 2004, 05:31 AM

Code:

date=new Date();
day=date.getDate();
year=date.getYear();
if (year &lt; 2000) year=year+1900;
TodaysDate=" "+d[date.getDay()]+" "+day+" "+m[date.getMonth()]+" "+year;

TodaysDate would read Friday 9 July 2004 (as of this posting

)

***The Grunt*** · July 10th, 2004, 06:34 AM

So what would I put where? Sorry, I'm not too good with JS... I need to go learn more but anyways.

**Dietzol** · July 10th, 2004, 05:27 PM

There's a variety of scripts out there you could use. Here's a different one. You could place this in the head of the document, although I usually just place my site name, info, trackin info in the head? Either way..

<SCRIPT>

function tick() {
var hours, minutes, seconds, ap;
var intHours, intMinutes, intSeconds;
var today;
today = new Date();
intHours = today.getHours();
intMinutes = today.getMinutes();
intSeconds = today.getSeconds();

if (intHours == 0) {

hours = "12:";

ap = "It's midnight";
} else if (intHours < 12) {
hours = intHours+":";
ap = " AM";
} else if (intHours == 12) {
hours = "12:";
ap = "It's noon";
} else {
intHours = intHours - 12
hours = intHours + ":";
ap = " PM";
}
if (intMinutes < 10) {
minutes = "0"+intMinutes+":";
} else {
minutes = intMinutes+":";
}
if (intSeconds < 10) {
seconds = "0"+intSeconds+" ";
} else {
seconds = intSeconds+" ";
}
timeString = hours+minutes+seconds+ap;
Clock.innerHTML = timeString;
window.setTimeout("tick();", 100);
}
window.onload = tick;
</SCRIPT>
<DIV id=Clock style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> </DIV>

**riya_here** · July 11th, 2004, 10:19 AM

If you want you can check out http://www.javascripts.com

you can get the readymade scripts for free there!!

**Lord Xavier** · July 13th, 2004, 11:12 AM

hmm i have some way to do that. u can put javascript function in to another file like "script.js". and then u call it from your page like this

<head>
<title></title>
<script language="JavaScript" src="script.js">
</script>
</head>

and example to call that function like this.

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" onLoad="myTime()">

the function myTime() are:

function myTime() {
var today = new Date()
var hours = today.getHours()
var minutes = today.getMinutes()
var seconds = today.getSeconds()
var suffix="AM"

if (hours >= 12) {
suffix="PM"
}

if (hours >= 13) {
hours-=12
} else if (hours == 0) {
hours = 12
}

if (minutes < 10) {
minutes = "0" + minutes
}

if (seconds < 10) {
seconds = "0" + seconds
}

var time = hours + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds + " " + suffix

parent.header.time.value = time

timer = window.setTimeout("myTime()", 1000)
}

or u can exactly include the script itself to your html

<SCRIPT Language=JavaScript>

</SCRIPT>

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