PHP DateTime diff function not working properly - php

Question

Here's the case.
I store vacation information of employees in mysql in unix timestamp.
What I want to do is to
- show the vacation days in a calendar;
- show how much time passed since last vacation;
The result I'm trying to get is like in this picture:
http://postimg.org/image/7tdw4hmwf/
The problem is my calendar is starting from 31-12-1969 and showing too many days.
Here's the code:
$vac_begin = '1412100000';
$vac_end = '1412877600';
// $vac_end = '1414087200';
$ve = new DateTime(date("d-m-Y", $vac_end));
$today = new DateTime(date('d-m-Y'));
$time_passed = $today->diff($ve)->format('%y years %m months');
echo 'Vacation start:'.date("d-m-Y", $vac_begin).'<br/>';
echo 'Vacation end:'.date("d-m-Y", $vac_end).'<br/>';
echo 'Time passed since last vacation: '.$time_passed.'<br/>';
//---------------------------------------
echo 'Days to show in calendar<br/>';
//Get monday of the week
$before = date("N", $vac_begin) - 1;
//Get sunday of the week
$after = 7 - date("N", $vac_end);
//Vacation days
$datediff = $vac_end - $vac_begin;
//Get number of remaining days to show in calendar
$remaining = 42 - (floor($datediff/(60*60*24)) + 1 + $before + $after);
//Allocate remaining days before and after vacation period
$floor = floor($remaining/7/2);
$round = round($remaining/7/2);
if($before > $after){
$after += $round*7;
$before += $floor*7;
} else{
$after += $floor*7;
$before += $round*7;
}
$format_sdate = date("d-m-Y", $vac_begin);
$format_edate = date("d-m-Y", $vac_end);
//Get first day to show in calendar
$cal_start_date = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($format_sdate.' -'.$before.' days'));
//Get last day to show in calendar
$cal_end_date = date("d-m-Y", strtotime($format_edate.' +'.$after.' days'));
$begin = new DateTime($cal_start_date);
$end = new DateTime($cal_end_date);
$end = $end->modify('+1 day');
$interval = DateInterval::createFromDateString('1 day');
$period = new DatePeriod($begin, $interval, $end);
foreach ($period as $dt){
echo $dt->format("d").', ';
}
echo $cal_start_date;