jQuery SyoTimer Plugin

jQuery plugin of countdown on html page

Demo

Examples of usage jQuery SyoTimer Plugin

Features

• Periodic counting with the specified period
• Effects of change of indications of the countdown
• The correct declension of nouns next to numeral numerals
• An opportunity to add the language of countdown signatures which isn't included in the standard version of the plugin
• Callback after the end of the countdown timer with the possibility of changing the structure of the timer
• Custom formatting and styling timer

Installing

In a browser. Need download the latest release. And include the JavaScript file which you can find in the build folder:

<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/jquery.syotimer.min.js"></script>

Using npm:

$ npm install jquery-syotimer

Using yarn:

$ yarn add jquery-syotimer

Usage

Syotimer plugin can be integrated with plain JavaScript or with different module loaders.

Script Tag:

<script type="text/javascript">
  jQuery(function ($) {
    $(".selector_to_countdown").syotimer();
  });
</script>

Common JS:

const $ = require("jquery");
require("jquery-syotimer");

$(".selector_to_countdown").syotimer();

Bundlers (Webpack, etc):

import $ from "jquery";
import "jquery-syotimer";

$(".selector_to_countdown").syotimer();

Markup

Classes is named by BEM methodology

<div class="syotimer">
  <div class="syotimer__head"></div>
  <div class="syotimer__body">
    <div class="syotimer__item syotimer-cell syotimer-cell_type_day">
      <div class="syotimer-cell__value">1</div>
      <div class="syotimer-cell__unit">day</div>
    </div>
    <div class="syotimer__item syotimer-cell syotimer-cell_type_hour">
      <div class="syotimer-cell__value">1</div>
      <div class="syotimer-cell__unit">hour</div>
    </div>
    <div class="syotimer__item syotimer-cell syotimer-cell_type_minute">
      <div class="syotimer-cell__value">1</div>
      <div class="syotimer-cell__unit">minute</div>
    </div>
    <div class="syotimer__item syotimer-cell syotimer-cell_type_second">
      <div class="syotimer-cell__value">1</div>
      <div class="syotimer-cell__unit">second</div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="syotimer__footer"></div>
</div>

Example of css styles for syotimer in resources/default.css.

Options

Option	Description	Type of Value	Default Value	Available Values
date	date, which should count down timer	integer/Date	0
layout	sets an order of layout of units of the timer: days (d) of hours ('h'), minute ('m'), second ('s').	string	'dhms'
doubleNumbers	true - show hours, minutes and seconds with leading zeros (2 hours 5 minutes 4 seconds = 02:05:04)	boolean	true
effectType	The effect of changing the value of seconds	string	'none'	'none', 'opacity'
lang	localization of a countdown signatures (days, hours, minutes, seconds)	string	'eng'	see Localization
periodic	true - the timer is periodic. If the date until which counts the timer is reached, the next value date which will count down the timer is incremented by the value periodInterval	boolean	false
periodInterval	the period of the timer in periodUnit (if periodic is set to true)	integer	7	>0
periodUnit	the unit of measurement period timer	string	'd'	'd', 'h', 'm', 's'

Methods

The use of the methods has the following syntax:

$('.your_selector_to_countdown').syotimer(nameOfMethod, param1, param2, ... , paramN);

setOption

setOption - assigns a value to the option

Parameters:

1. Name of option
2. Value

Code examples:

$(".your_selector_to_countdown").syotimer("setOption", "effectType", "opacity");

Localization

Default languages

By default the supported plugin languages:

Language	Value of lang option
English	'eng'
Russian	'rus'
Spanish	'spa'
Portuguese	'por'
Hebrew	'heb'

Adding new language

It is very simple to execute localization of a plugin under the language. You need to add the translations of signatures to timer elements as the parameter of an object of $.syotimerLang. Then you need determine a new language in the syotimer options. For example we will add support of Spanish (though this language is supported by default):

$.syotimerLang.spa = {
  seconds: ["segundo", "segundos"],
  minute: ["minuto", "minutos"],
  hour: ["hora", "horas"],
  day: ["dia", "dias"],
};

$(".your_selector_to_countdown").syotimer({
  lang: "spa",
});

Inducement of a noun after a numeral

At the majority of languages a simple algorithm of determination of inducement of a noun after a numeral. If numeral is equal 1 then need input first element from array. Otherwise - second element.

But there are languages in which more difficult rules of determination of the correct inducement of nouns after a numeral (for example, Russian).

For example, consider a completely synthetic language (let it be called "Nenglish"). It is very similar to English but there are significant differences in the spelling of nouns after numerals. Namely, the difference in the suffixes of these nouns:

• if the number ends with the digit 1 then to the noun added the suffix "one" (21 secondone, 1 minuteone, ...);
• if the number ends with the digit 5 then the suffix is equal "five" (35 hourfive, 5 secondfive);
• otherwise the suffix is equal to "s" (24 minutes, 3 days).

To add a Nenglish in Syotimer need first add all possible variants of a writing of the captions of the items of the plugin. The abbreviated name of the language will take "neng":

$.syotimerLang.neng = {
  second: ["secondone", "secondfive", "seconds"],
  minute: ["minuteone", "minutefive", "minutes"],
  hour: ["hourone", "hourfive", "hours"],
  day: ["dayone", "dayfive", "days"],
  handler: function nengNumeral(number, words) {
    var lastDigit = number % 10;
    var index = 2;
    if (lastDigit === 1) {
      index = 0;
    } else if (lastDigit === 5) {
      index = 1;
    }
    return words[index];
  },
};

The "handler" must contain a function that receive the two arguments: a number and an array of nouns. This method should return the the noun.

Then only have to specify the language when you create the instance Syotimer:

$(".your_selector_to_countdown").syotimer({
  lang: "neng",
});

Requirements

jQuery SyoTimer Plugin has been tested with jQuery 1.7+ on all major browsers:

• Firefox 2+ (Win, Mac, Linux);
• IE8+ (Win);
• Chrome 6+ (Win, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone);
• Safari 3.2+ (Win, Mac, iPhone);
• Opera 8+ (Win, Mac, Linux, Android, iPhone).

Gratitude to Yuri Danilchenko and Elena Levin.