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I need to pay someone for a live counter that adds one each 1.7 seconds.

https://www.daniweb.com/web-development/php/threads/68355/live-web-counter-increment-a-number-by-x-every-x-seconds

It is the real time count of Heart Failures worldwide.

Gary@HealthyHeartTissue.com

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Here is a simple derivative of the linked thread above.

I want to let you know that this is also a hybrid ( PHP and Javascript). I don't normally use server side time in displaying user time zone related content, but we need a reliable time reference.

our simple function.. save as cases.php

<?php

    function get_cases()
    {
        ## define current server time
        $time = time();

        ## define time beginning e.g. january of this year
        $beg_time = strtotime('2014-01-01 00:00:00');

        ## calculate elapsed time since beg_time
        $elapsed_time = round($time - $beg_time);


        ## return everything as array 

        return array( 

            'time'=> $time, 
            'case_today' => round(($time - (strtotime("00:00"))) / 1.7), 
            'beg_time' => $beg_time, 
            'elapsed_time' => round($time - $beg_time), 
            'ytd_cases' => round($elapsed_time / 1.7)

            );
    }


    $res = get_cases();

    ## test if we can access array output
    //echo $res['beg_time'].'<br/>';
    //echo $res['time'].'<br/>';

 ?>

The page that will display your incrementation. Save as counter.php

<?php
    require_once('cases.php');

?>


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">

        function getCurrentTime(){

            return <?php echo $res['time'];?>;

        }
        var timeSinceEpoch = getCurrentTime(); 

        //document.write(timeSinceEpoch);

        var heartFailure = <?php echo $res['ytd_cases'];?> ; // this is the total cases since beginning
        var caseToday = <?php echo $res['case_today'];?>;

        function casesAsOfToday(){

            caseToday++;
            document.getElementById('cases_today').innerHTML = 'Cases today ' + caseToday;

        }

        function countFailure() {

            heartFailure++;
            document.getElementById('heart_failure').innerHTML = 'Year to date cases: ' + heartFailure;
        }
        setInterval('countFailure()', 1700);
        setInterval('casesAsOfToday()',1700);

    </script>

</head>

<body>

    <div id="heart_failure"></div>
    <br/>

    <div id="cases_today"></div>


</body>
</html>

that's pretty much it. You can style the integer count by adding CSS. So, this

<div id="heart_failure"></div>

can have class attribute

<div id="heart_failure" class="your_class"></div>
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