Percentage calculation

[vizzaroo]

Hi Ben,

I've been using form tools successfully now for several months and integrated perfectly for use.

I have a question though if possible:

When showing submission counts on a seperate page i.e

<?php
echo ft_api_show_submission_count(1, 235);
?>

Shows a total of xxxx submissions

<?php
echo ft_api_show_submission_count(1, 236);
?>

Shows a total of xxxx submissions

Question: What I would like to do is get a percentage from those views. View 235 is the total submissions, view 236 is a filtered view of those submissions. So what I would like is to calculate a percentage of what view 236 is using php to show the end calculation on the page and update itself accordingly to each submission etc.

Cheers for any advice or direction.

[Ben]

Hey Vizzaroo,

Sure, no problem! Try something like this:

PHP Code:

$count1 = ft_api_show_submission_count(1, 235);
$count2 = ft_api_show_submission_count(1, 236);

// now $count1 and $count2 contain the number of results in those 
// two Views. Assuming $count1 will always contain more than $count2:
$percentage = floor(($count2 / $count1) * 100);

// display it!
echo $percentage; 


My math is pretty awful, but that should work. We use floor() rather than round() because the only ever time you want to see 100% is when the number of results in $count2 is identical to $count1. round() would round it up if it was .5 or higher.

- Ben

[vizzaroo]

Works Perfectly !

Thanks alot Ben.