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create a dynamic countdown timer in Laravel

How to create a dynamic countdown timer in Laravel?

Today, I will give you an example of “How to Create a Dynamic Countdown Timer in Laravel”, So you can easily apply it with your laravel 5, laravel 6, laravel 7, and Laravel 8 application.

First, what we’re doing here, This is the example :

dynamic countdown timer in laravel example

Need of Countdown Timer in Laravel

The countdown timer is used for e-commerce applications for sales or upcoming sales and website launch and Maintainance or coming soon page in web application.

We can also make a countdown timer with JavaScript, but the timer will reset if you refresh the tab. You can make the counter-timer run indefinitely by using Laravel. If you refresh the page, the timer continues to run.

Dynamic countdown timer Laravel

We will add Timer JavaScript CDN. To achieve a dynamic time countdown, we’ll use both Laravel and a database.

The Laravel update activity assists with refreshing the MySQL data set. Users can refresh the time as needed.

Let’s get started.

Generating Migration with Model

php artisan make:model CountdownTimer -m

Migration Structures

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateCountdownTimersTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('countdown_timers', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->dateTime('launch_date');
            $table->boolean('status');
            $table->softDeletes();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('countdown_timers');
    }
}

Run Migration

php artisan migrate
timer table

app\Models\CountdownTimer .php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes;

class CountdownTimer extends Model
{
    use SoftDeletes;
    use HasFactory;
}

Create a Controller

php artisan make:controller CountdownTimerController

Define Web Routes

routes\web.php

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\CountdownTimerController;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/


#Countdown timer example
Route::get('/create-timer', [CountdownTimerController::class, 'create']);
Route::post('/update-timer', [CountdownTimerController::class, 'update'])->name('timer.update');
Route::get('/view-timer', [CountdownTimerController::class, 'view']);

app\Http\Controllers\CountdownTimerController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Session;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\CountdownTimer;

class CountdownTimerController extends Controller
{

    public function create(){
        return view('timer.create');
    }

    public function update(Request $request)
    {
        $timer_id ='1';
        $timer = CountdownTimer::findOrNew($timer_id);
        $timer->launch_date = $request->date_time;
        $timer->status = $request->timer_status;
        $timer->save();
        dd('Timer has been updated successfully!');
    }

    public function view(){
        $timer = CountdownTimer::first();
        return view('timer.view',compact('timer'));
    }
}



Create Blade Files

We create a timer folder in views and then create these 2 files given below-:

  • create.blade.php
  • view.blade.php

Download Countdown Timer Js file with complete code:-

dynamic countdown timer in laravel code GitHub
<a href="https://github.com/gauravhacky/dynamic-countdown-timer-in-laravel" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://github.com/gauravhacky/dynamic-countdown-timer-in-laravel</a>

resources\views\timer\create.blade.php

create countdown timer blade file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/css/bootstrap.min.css">
      <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
      <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
      <style>
         a {
         color: #BE206B!important;
         }
         a.btn.btn-lg.btn-block,.btn-info {
         color: white !important;
         }
         .btn-secondary {
         background-color: #448BC6!important;
         color: #fff!important;
         }
         button.btn.btn.btn-secondary {
         width: 100%;
         }
         h3 {
         text-align: center;
         line-height: 200%;
         }
         .collpa
         .pt-0, .py-0 {
         padding-top: 0!important;
         }
      </style>
   </head>
   <main>
      <div class="container">
      <div class="row justify-content-center">
         <div class="col-lg-6">
            <div class="main">
               <h3><a>Countdown Timer Example in Laravel.</a></h3>
               <form role="form" action="{{route('timer.update')}}" method="post">
                  @csrf
                  <div class="form-group">
                     <label for="name">Select Date Time <span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                     <input type="datetime-local" name="date_time" class="form-control"/>
                  </div>
                  <div class="form-group">
                     <label for="author">Status<span class="text-danger">*</span></label>
                     <select class="form-control" name="timer_status">
                        <option value="0">Inactive</option>
                        <option value="1">Active</option>
                     </select>
                  </div>
                  <div class="form-group">
                     <button type="submit" class="btn btn btn-secondary">save</button>
               </form>
               </div>
            </div>
         </div>
      </div>
   </main>
   </body>
</html>

resources\views\timer\view.blade.php

view countdown timer blade file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/css/bootstrap.min.css">
      <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
      <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
      <style>
         body, html {
         height: 100%;
         margin: 0;
         }
         .bgimg {
         background-image: url('https://www.w3schools.com/w3images/forestbridge.jpg');
         height: 100%;
         background-position: center;
         background-size: cover;
         position: relative;
         color: white;
         font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
         font-size: 25px;
         }
         .topleft {
         position: absolute;
         top: 0;
         left: 16px;
         }
         .middle {
         position: absolute;
         top: 50%;
         left: 50%;
         transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
         text-align: center;
         }
         p {
         margin-top: 20px;
         margin-left: 250px;
         margin-bottom: 1rem;
         }
         hr {
         margin: auto;
         width: 40%;
         }
      </style>
   </head>
   <body>
      <div class="bgimg">
         <div class="topleft">
            <p>Laravel Dynamic Countdown Timer Example-8bityard.com</p>
         </div>
         <div class="middle">
            <h1>COMING SOON</h1>
            <hr>
            <p>
            <div class="wrap-countdown mercado-countdown" data-expire="{{ Carbon\Carbon::parse($timer->launch_date)->format('Y/m/d h:i:s') }}"></div>
            </p>
         </div>
      </div>
   </body>
</html>
<script src="{{asset('js/jquery.countdown.min.js')}}"></script>
<script>
   ;(function($) {
    
    var MERCADO_JS = {
      init: function(){
         this.mercado_countdown();
         
      }, 
    mercado_countdown: function() {
         if($(".mercado-countdown").length > 0){
                $(".mercado-countdown").each( function(index, el){
                  var _this = $(this),
                  _expire = _this.data('expire');
               _this.countdown(_expire, function(event) {
                        $(this).html( event.strftime('<span><b>%D</b> Days</span> <span><b>%-H</b> Hrs</span> <span><b>%M</b> Mins</span> <span><b>%S</b> Secs</span>'));
                    });
                });
         }
      },
   
   }
   
      window.onload = function () {
         MERCADO_JS.init();
      }
   
      })(window.Zepto || window.jQuery, window, document);
</script>

Don’t forget to add the jquery.countdown.min.js file in your view blade file, you can download this file from the GitHub repository I already mention above.

Remember one thing always choose an upcoming date or time in the create blade file.

store datetime in table in laravel

Run Application :

127.0.0.1:8000/view-timer

Output:

integrate datetime in blade file in laravel
store datetime value in table in laravel

coming soon page in laravel with dynamic timer

In this article, we successfully learned “How to create a dynamic countdown timer in Laravel”, I hope this article will help you with your Laravel application Project.

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