A little help please

[seattlecane]

I hope this is the right forum...

I am using a countdown script in a page I am designing

<? 

$day = 30; // Day of the countdown 
$month = 8; // Month of the countdown 
$year = 2003; // Year of the countdown 

// mktime is the marked time, and time() is the current time. 
$target = mktime(0,0,0,$month,$day,$year); 
$diff = $target - time(); 

$days = ($diff - ($diff % 86400)) / 86400; 
$diff = $diff - ($days * 86400); 
$hours = ($diff - ($diff % 3600)) / 3600; 
$diff = $diff - ($hours * 3600); 
$minutes = ($diff - ($diff % 60)) / 60; 
$diff = $diff - ($minutes * 60); 
$seconds = ($diff - ($diff % 1)) / 1; 

printf("There are $days days, $hours hours, $minutes minutes, Until Kickoff"); 
?>

Is there a simple way to set the font, color, size of the output without affecting the rest of the page?

Thanks

[PHP John]

Yes, look into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML.

Your code would look something like this:

echo "<span class='[class name]'>There are $days days, $hours hours, $minutes minutes, until kickoff!</span>";

Or you could use the deprecated <font> tags:

echo "<font color='color'>There are $days days, $hours hours, $minutes minutes, until kickoff!</font>";

However, I would HIGHLY recommend using CSS.