Dynamic Countdown Script error

[dmwhipp]

1) Script Title: Dynamic Countdown Script

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...dhtmlcount.htm

3) Describe problem: I am getting an error on the page after I add the Dynamic Countdown Script.

Here is the page: http://www.dwwebdesigns.com/sophie/index.html

The error is:

Line: 2
Char: 1
Error: Syntax error
Code: 0


I have this in the head section:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

/***********************************************
* Dynamic Countdown script- Copyright Dynamic Drive (http://www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for this script and 100s more.
***********************************************/

function cdtime(container, targetdate){
if (!document.getElementById || !document.getElementById(container)) return
this.container=document.getElementById(container)
this.currentTime=new Date()
this.targetdate=new Date(targetdate)
this.timesup=false
this.updateTime()
}

cdtime.prototype.updateTime=function(){
var thisobj=this
this.currentTime.setSeconds(this.currentTime.getSeconds()+1)
setTimeout(function(){thisobj.updateTime()}, 1000) //update time every second
}

cdtime.prototype.displaycountdown=function(baseunit, functionref){
this.baseunit=baseunit
this.formatresults=functionref
this.showresults()
}

cdtime.prototype.showresults=function(){
var thisobj=this


var timediff=(this.targetdate-this.currentTime)/1000 //difference btw target date and current date, in seconds
if (timediff<0){ //if time is up
this.timesup=true
this.container.innerHTML=this.formatresults()
return
}
var oneMinute=60 //minute unit in seconds
var oneHour=60*60 //hour unit in seconds
var oneDay=60*60*24 //day unit in seconds
var dayfield=Math.floor(timediff/oneDay)
var hourfield=Math.floor((timediff-dayfield*oneDay)/oneHour)
var minutefield=Math.floor((timediff-dayfield*oneDay-hourfield*oneHour)/oneMinute)
var secondfield=Math.floor((timediff-dayfield*oneDay-hourfield*oneHour-minutefield*oneMinute))
if (this.baseunit=="hours"){ //if base unit is hours, set "hourfield" to be topmost level
hourfield=dayfield*24+hourfield
dayfield="n/a"
}
else if (this.baseunit=="minutes"){ //if base unit is minutes, set "minutefield" to be topmost level
minutefield=dayfield*24*60+hourfield*60+minutefield
dayfield=hourfield="n/a"
}
else if (this.baseunit=="seconds"){ //if base unit is seconds, set "secondfield" to be topmost level
var secondfield=timediff
dayfield=hourfield=minutefield="n/a"
}
this.container.innerHTML=this.formatresults(dayfield, hourfield, minutefield, secondfield)
setTimeout(function(){thisobj.showresults()}, 1000) //update results every second
}

/////CUSTOM FORMAT OUTPUT FUNCTIONS BELOW//////////////////////////////

//Create your own custom format function to pass into cdtime.displaycountdown()
//Use arguments[0] to access "Days" left
//Use arguments[1] to access "Hours" left
//Use arguments[2] to access "Minutes" left
//Use arguments[3] to access "Seconds" left

//The values of these arguments may change depending on the "baseunit" parameter of cdtime.displaycountdown()
//For example, if "baseunit" is set to "hours", arguments[0] becomes meaningless and contains "n/a"
//For example, if "baseunit" is set to "minutes", arguments[0] and arguments[1] become meaningless etc


function formatresults(){
if (this.timesup==false){//if target date/time not yet met
var displaystring=arguments[0]+" days "+arguments[1]+" hours "+arguments[2]+" minutes "+arguments[3]+" seconds left until June 5, 2008"
}
else{ //else if target date/time met
var displaystring="Future date is here!"
}
return displaystring
}

function formatresults2(){
if (this.timesup==false){ //if target date/time not yet met
var displaystring="<span class='lcdstyle'>"+arguments[0]+" ^days "+arguments[1]+" ^hours "+arguments[2]+" ^minutes "+arguments[3]+" ^seconds</span> left until this Christmas"
}
else{ //else if target date/time met
var displaystring="" //Don't display any text
alert("Christmas is here!") //Instead, perform a custom alert
}
return displaystring
}

</script>



And this in the body:

<div id="countdowncontainer"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var futuredate=new cdtime("countdowncontainer", "June 5, 2008")
futuredate.displaycountdown("days", formatresults)
</script>

Thanks in advance,
Deborah

[Nile]

Hmmm... Weird. The countdown doesn't display me any errors... Double check.

[thetestingsite]

On your website (according to Firefox) it's not the script that is causing the error but instead it is in your doctype (not sure why though).

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

I'm going to keep playing around with it to see what the fix is.

[dmwhipp]

I finally found the error. I had
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/sophie/tell_sophie.js"></script>
to call a Share This Site script that I had not installed and was not using for this site. After I removed that from the head section, the error code disappeared.

Deborah