A quickie just-for-fun script used to count the days until Christmas. Originally used as part of a SOAP service hence the XML output.

SoapDaysUntilChristmas.php

<?php
/*
* This class was originally written as part of a SOAP service - just for fun 
*
* used as a countdown until Christmas
* Returns 
* the number of Days
* the number of Shopping Days
* the number of Weekends
* */
 
class SoapDaysUntilChristmas {
 
  function __construct($aParams)
  {
 
        $dtToday = mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d'),date('Y'));
        $dtXmas  = mktime(0,0,0,12,25,date('Y'));
        if ($dtToday>=$dtXmas) {
         $dtXmas = mktime(0,0,0,12,25,date('Y')+1);
        }
 
        //Using simple division
 
        $sec2xmas = ($dtXmas - $dtToday) ;
        $secperday = (60 * 60 *24) ;
        $this->days2xmas = (int) ($sec2xmas / $secperday) ;
 
        $weeks = $this->days2xmas / 7 ;
        $this->shoppingDays = (int)($this->days2xmas - $weeks) ;
 
        // By Looping through
        $bNonShop = 'sunday' ;
        $cAllDays = 0;
        $cShopDays = 0 ;
        $cWeekends = 0 ;
        while ( $dtToday < $dtXmas ) {
          //First Count ALL Days
          $cAllDays++;
 
          //what day is it
          $sDayOfWeek = strtolower(date('l',$dtToday)) ;
 
          //if it's not a sunday then count as a shop day
          if ($sDayOfWeek!=$bNonShop) {
            $cShopDays++;
          }
          //if it's a saturday then count as a weekend
          if ($sDayOfWeek=='saturday') {
            $cWeekends++;
          }
          //now add on 1 day
          $dtToday+=86400 ;
        }
 
        $this->summary = '
        <NumberOfDaysToChristmas>'.$cAllDays.'</NumberOfDaysToChristmas>
        <ShoppingDaysToChristmas>'.$cShopDays.'</ShoppingDaysToChristmas>
        <NumberOfWeekendsToChristmas>'.$cWeekends.'</NumberOfWeekendsToChristmas>';
 
 
      //process the result set into XML
      $this->buildXML();
 
  }//end constructor
 
  /**
  * Process the result set into an XML format
  * @access public
  * @return void
  * */
  function buildXML()
  {
    $sXML = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DaysToXmas
  xmlns="http://xml.mysite.com/namespace"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://xml.mysite.com/schemas/plain/DaysToXmas.xsd">';
 
      $sXML.= $this->summary ;
 
        $sXML.='
</DaysToXmas>';
 
      $this->SOAP .=$sXML;
 
    //return $sXML;
 
  }//end function
 
 
 
}//end class
 
?>