Automatically update age from birth year Options

[jernatety]

Hello,

On my sports website I have created "Player" profile pages which include a players birth year and age.

The entire pages is written in HTML. I do not know anything other than HTML and I'm not an expert, I'm novice at best. I'm now up to 30 player profile pages and there's no way I'm going to remember to manually update each of their age's every time it's their birthday.

Is there any way with HTML or javascript that I can have the ages automatically update each time their birthday comes up?

Thank you for any help in advance. I can provide a link to a page to review upon request.

[Christian J]

You need to put the script in a SCRIPT element:

CODE

<script type="text/javascript">
function calcAge(dateString) {
  var birthday = new Date(dateString);
  var ageDifMs = Date.now() - birthday.getTime();
  var ageDate = new Date(ageDifMs); // miliseconds from epoch
  return Math.abs(ageDate.getFullYear() - 1970);
}
</script>

You must also call the functions somehow, and retrieve the birth year from the player profile. Exactly how to do this depends on how your current page is written, so a link or sample code would be indeed useful.

[jernatety]

You need to put the script in a SCRIPT element:

CODE

<script type="text/javascript">
function calcAge(dateString) {
  var birthday = new Date(dateString);
  var ageDifMs = Date.now() - birthday.getTime();
  var ageDate = new Date(ageDifMs); // miliseconds from epoch
  return Math.abs(ageDate.getFullYear() - 1970);
}
</script>

You must also call the functions somehow, and retrieve the birth year from the player profile. Exactly how to do this depends on how your current page is written, so a link or sample code would be indeed useful.

My site is entirely built with a free community script called SMF. I am using an add on module called Tiny Portal. Tiny Portal has a feature which allows you to make pages called "Articles" in HTML. This is one of the pages. You'll see in the middle of the page is where the players birth date and age are. For this example, this kids full birth date isn't available. Almost all of the other pages the players full birth date is available.

CODE

https://www.youthhockeyinfo.com/index.php?page=28

This post has been edited by jernatety: Sep 21 2019, 05:26 AM