Get Percentage Of A Number With PHP

4th June 2008 - 2 minutes read time

Use the following function to find the percentage value of one number to another. If the $total parameter is zero then zero is returned as this would otherwise result in a division by zero error.

function get_percentage($total, $number)
{
  if ( $total > 0 ) {
   return round(($number * 100) / $total, 2);
  } else {
    return 0;
  }
}

Here are some examples of the function in action.

echo get_percentage(100,50).'%'; // 50%
echo get_percentage(100,10).'%'; // 10%
echo get_percentage(100,100).'%'; // 100%
echo get_percentage(400,3).'%'; // 0.75%
echo get_percentage(1234,4321).'%'; // 350.16%
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Comments

That percentage script saved my arse. You rule.

Submitted by Ben Althauser on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 23:18

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hi . i'm from iran I was a long time in search for the this formula thanks for this formula , administrator :)

Submitted by Amir on Sun, 10/16/2016 - 01:13

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thanks for share..

Submitted by vipjatt on Thu, 06/01/2017 - 03:19

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Thanks

Submitted by kvanacht on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 05:49

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I just had to swap $total and 100 over for my purposes, i.e returning 100/200 as 50%.

Submitted by Tim on Wed, 03/03/2021 - 15:23

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Hello Philip, that formula does not generate the correct %, then I write the correct one: (number * 100) / total:

/*

return round(($number * 100) / $total, 2);

*/

Submitted by Rafa G on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 15:53

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Quite right. It must have been right at some point but it's clearly been wrong for a while.

Thanks for the correction! I've updated the code.

Philip Norton

Submitted by giHlZp8M8D on Thu, 07/22/2021 - 20:58

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Really liked this post, thanks!

Submitted by DanielFlupt on Thu, 07/29/2021 - 15:21

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Hi, 

Lovely Script.

But I am looking for one that takes a value, EG Dollars, and multiples it by 11% and gives an answer. Any help?

Thanks in advance.

Submitted by Michael C Hutchinson on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 05:24

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You mean something like this?

function multiply_by_percentage($number, $percent) {
  return $number * ($number * $percent / 100);
}

 

Philip Norton

Submitted by giHlZp8M8D on Fri, 01/28/2022 - 08:37

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