creating a time limit

[nutt318]

This maybe sort of a dumb question but is there a way to create a timer of some sort in WordPress? Anyways I soon may have a client that wants a web-page with a video stream embedded into it. That’s easy, I know how to do that and the type of software, etc. that I will need. This client runs a children’s daycare.

My problem is they want to have the children’s parents be able to login to their website and view a live cam and watch their kids play. The part I can’t figure out is they want a time limit say of 2 minutes that a parent can watch every hour. So, how would I go about setting up a feature to limit the time they can watch a video feed? Is this even possible? I mean if they were to look at the source of the page im sure they could see the feed location.

Any suggestions are helpful.
Thanks,
Jake

[arjunvasudeva]

Okay i’ve got a kinda simple yet unique method.

To allow the parents to actually view the video, make them click a button. Then, using Javascript, time that button for two minutes, then an alert will come up, which you can then redirect to a page explaining their time is up.
JS:

Code:

and then the HTML:

<form>
<input type="button" value="Time limit!"
onClick="timedMsg()" />
</form>

then you can use another delay of 60mins to wait for the other two minutes.

I know i’m kinda "noob-ish" but it is a very simple way.

:D

Arjun

[nutt318]

Very nice Arjun, thanks for the help. As long as it works, it will be great. Thanks for the example.

Thanks,
Jake

[arjunvasudeva]

no problem :)

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