Percent Bars for a web poll

[coolgamer48]

HeyDoes anyone have any ideas on how I can show bars representing the various choices in a web poll? I already have the percent values, I just can't think of how to make bars to represent them.Please and thank you!

[Ingolme]

Try this:<div style="width: 200px"><?php echo "<div style=\"width: " . $percent . "%; background-color: blue; height: 5px;\"></div>"; ?></div>Change the variable $percent for whatever variable has the number you wanted.

[coolgamer48]

Thanks - it worked great.BTW, what's \" used for exactly? I used ' and it worked fine.

[Ingolme]

It's just a habit of mine. Both of them are the same.

[zppblood]

Thanks - it worked great.BTW, what's \" used for exactly? I used ' and it worked fine.

It is called escaping (using \ to characters such as ", ', \). In this case, you would need to use \" because if you didn't have \ before ", PHP would think you are ending the string, using ' and " as a way to say something is a string, and trying to use PHP code like a variable, function, etc. This would make an error because you didn't use string concatenation (adding strings with .) and PHP doesn't know what width: is. This is just a way to output those special characters.

[Synook]

And to be XHTML valid you have to use " for attribute values.

[coolgamer48]

Ohh... okay - so \" just outputs a " character, like \n outputs a new line.

[zppblood]

Exactly, they will both return those results when using " for your strings.

[Synook]

Many control characters can be represented using escaped letters, such as \t for tab and \r for carriage return.