[pradeep]

I had to write the code to get percentage every time I needed it, so I thought it'd be much better to have a function for the purpose, here's the function I wrote.

PHP Code:

function percentage($int1, $int2) 
 {
     $per = $int1 / $int2;
     $res = $per * 100;
     return $res;
 } 


[shabbir]

This is not a good way of doing it as you may not get correct results. I am not sure about it in PHP but let me know what is the output for the forllowing.
$int1 = 48
$int2 = 100

[pradeep]

Will return 48!

[shabbir]

But it should not as 48/100 in integer should be 0

[pradeep]

the arguments passed are integers, but $res is casted to int.

[shabbir]

What is the type for $per

[pradeep]

By default there is not data type specified to a variable, it takes the data type of the value assigned. e.g. $a = 10/6; here $a becomes float, and $a = 10/2 here $a becomes int and $a = 'Shabbir' here $a becomes string.
So in this case $per = $int1 / $int2; $per becomes float.

[DaWei]

I would suggest that the parameters shouldn't be ints, anyway. Someone might want to know the percentage of a fractional number. Someone also might think that the return type has been coerced to match an the input arguments (integers), rather than having been set by PHPs "autotyping".

I would also suggest that the relationship, a/b*100, is far too simple to waste the overhead of a function call. On the other hand, I come from the days when resources weren't so abundant that one could be profligate with them.