Question

I have a simple poll with multiple answers. I use in the result the percentage of the answer as width of my chart.

For example:

• Answer 1 20%
• Answer 2 39%
• Answer 3 5%
• Answer 4 11%

etc..

(the percentage above is the width of my chart to)

The problem:

By having a lot of answers the highest result will not have more like: 15%. So my chart isnt nice at all.

The chart of my highest result has to be 100%, the second best result should have some percentage relative on the total.

Is there a way to calculate/fix that ?

Sorry for my english, hope you guys understand.

Answer 1

This is more of a maths question than a coding question I guess, but here it goes.
For the first (highest voted) entry, $percent will be 100%; for the other entries, it’s:

$percent = $nr_votes * 100 / $first;