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PHP

Michael Hansen
Michael Hansen
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Posted by Michael Hansen
Michael Hansen
8,369 Points

PHP - How to make the final value of a countdown become new starting value?

Hello, I am working on a school project where I am keeping track of a user's tweeting frequency per week. I have working code, but at the end of each 1-week period, I need to manually adjust the new starting tweet total, and the date of one week in the future. How can I automate it so the final tweet count becomes the new starting tweet count, and one week gets added to the ending date? Am I heading in the right direction with the code below, or should I be storing these final tweet total values in a database? Thank you!

// Get current tweet total and calculate current count

$ptTotal = $ptObject->{'statuses_count'};
$ptStart = 572;
$ptCount = ($ptTotal-$ptStart);

// Set end date & convert to EST

$ptdatestr="2017-05-30 12:00:00";
$ptdate=strtotime($ptdatestr)+14400;

// Calculate time remaining

$ptdiff=$ptdate-time();
$ptdays=floor($ptdiff/86400);
$pthours=round(($ptdiff-$ptdays*86400)/3600);

// Re-set start value and add one week to countdown

if ($ptdiff <= 0) {
    $ptStart = $ptTotal;
    $ptdate = $ptDate + 604800; 
}