This short tutorial is aimed to help you how to calculate the percent value from a total. Let’s suppose you have a e-commerce site and you offer discounts to the customers. You need to show them how much is the discount value worthing.

Here’s a sample from an order total:

Here’s the script which calculates the special discount value and the final price:

<?php
$percent = '30'; // without %
$total = '1300'; // initial value

/* Calculate $percent% from $total */
$discount_value = ($total / 100) * $percent;

$final_price = $total - $discount_value;

// Format numbers with number_format()

$total = number_format($total);
$discount_value = number_format($discount_value);
$final_price = number_format($final_price);

echo "Notebook's price: $".$total."<br />Our special discount: <strong>".
$percent."%</strong> (-$".$discount_value.")<br />Final price: $".$final_price;
?>

Any comments and suggestions regarding this script are welcomed.

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