Email Countdown Timer

Create an animated countdown timer for use within HTML emails

Getting started

• Upload files to server

Usage

• Navigate to your script in the browser and append the time you want to countdown to in the querystring parameter time. e.g. http://[server-address]/countdown.php?time=2016-12-25+00:00:01.

To include the countdown timer in your HTML email you simply need to create an image tag and in the src set it to the browser address. Note: Animated gifs are not supported in Outlook and for these the first frame will be shown.

Settings

The countdown timer can be customised to fit your style. The follow can be modified using query string parameters.

• time
• width
• height
• boxColor
• font
• fontColor
• fontSize
• xOffset
• yOffset
• labelOffsets

An example of this would be http://[server-address]/countdown.php?time=2016-12-25+00:00:01&width=640&height=110&boxColor=8B2860&font=BebasNeue&fontColor=FBB92C&fontSize=60&xOffset=155&yOffset=70&labelOffsets=1.4,5,8,11.

###Fonts

Any font file can be used as the base font for the countdowm timer. To use a custom font you'll need to upload it to the fonts directory and reference the exact name in the query string parameter font. Note: fonts must be uploaded using the ttf file extension.