Generate countdown in any format

Multi format countdown class can convert between different formats of time units. User can specify time left to count in any combinations of time units as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years and retrieve in any other combinations of time units

User might also provide timestamp to which time left was relatively calculated.

Note that user must set default time zone for countdown formats to be properly calculated.

This class returns values in full time units, for example, if you provide 80 seconds, and request format in minutes, then only 1 minute will be returned and 20 seconds will be cut off.

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PHP classes - Multi-format countdown class

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<?php
include("countdown.php");

//2 years 2 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours 30 minutes 40 seconds
//from Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:09:20 +0300
//provided value in seconds
$cd = new countdown(array("s"=>69539440), 1302383360);
echo "<pre>";
//get in years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds
print_r($cd->get());
echo "</pre>";

//114 weeks 6 days 1230 minutes 40 seconds
//from now
//provided value in weeks, days, minutes, seconds
$cd = new countdown(array("w" => 114, "d" => 6, "i" => 1230, "s" => 40));
echo "<pre>";
//get in seconds
print_r($cd->get(array("s")));
echo "</pre>";

//80 seconds
//from now
//provided value in seconds
$cd = new countdown(array("s" => 80));
echo "<pre>";
//get in minutes (returns only full minutes)
print_r($cd->get(array("i")));
echo "</pre>";
?>

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Get time left in any format

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Method name	new countdown($time, $rel = time())
Description	Provide time left in any format and timestamp to which time left was calculated
Input parameters	array $time - time left provided in format using any combinations of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. Keys for formats and meanings: s - seconds i - minutes h - hours d - days w - weeks m - months y - years int $rel - timestamp to which provided time left is relative to (default value - current timestamp)
Example input	//2 days and 3000 seconds $cd = new countdown(array("d"=>2, "s"=>3000));

Get time left in any format

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Method name	get($time = array("y", "m", "w", "d", "h", "i", "s"))
Description	Get time left in any combinations of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds
Input parameters	array $time - array with format, in which units to return time, as values of array. Keys for formats and meanings: s - seconds i - minutes h - hours d - days w - weeks m - months y - years
Example input	//get years, days, hours, minutes and seconds get(array('y','d','h','i','s'));