Question

I have a projectstatus in my mysql database. Depending on the status, it’s 1, 2 or 3. Also I have a css status bar of which I can set the width of, to see the progress.

Here’s the example code:

<td>" . $projstatid ."
    <div class='meter-wrap'>
        <div class='meter-value' style='background-color: #0a0; width: 33,3%;'>
            <div class='meter-text'></div>
            </div>
    </div>
</td>

Now I can do 3 if statements at the width’s size like:

if ($projstatid) = 1 { echo "33.3%"; } elseif {..} else {...}

But how do I write a simple loop which loops through the numbers untill it reaches the $projstatid‘s value, but every time it re-loops adds 33.3%?

Even better would be if the loop devided the amount time of loopings by the max amount of projstatids. But that I’ll figure out, once I have this basic loop working.

EDIT

What I’m trying to do is to create a loop which does this:

x=1
y=0
$projectstatid = $record['projectstatid'] (in this example lets say it's 5)

loop: x=1, is it 5? Nope. return: y= +20%
loop: x=2, is it 5? Nope. return: y= +20%
etc.

untill it reaches 5 (and it will return 100%)

Answer 1

You can do something like this to compute the percent corresponding to your current value :

$percent = floor($number * 100 / $nbmax);

Here $percent is the value to put in your css and $number is your current status and $nbmax is the maximum value that it could have.

In your case your would have :

$number  = $record['projstatid'];
$nbmax = 3;
$percent = floor($number * 100 / $nbmax);

EDIT: Based on your edit I guess you want something like this:

$number = 5;
for($i = 1 ; $i < $number; $i++) {
    $percent = floor($i * 100 / $number);
    echo $percent;
}