Division with php - php

Question

Im trying to get out an average value from a vote function.
<?php
$file = file("textfile.txt");
$textfil = file_get_contents("textfile.txt");
$textfill = str_split($textfil);
echo "Number of votes: " . count($textfill) . "<br>";
$sum = 0;
foreach ($textfill as $vote) {
$sum = $sum + intval($vote);
}
echo "Average: " . $sum;
?>
Simple by substitute (+) with a (/), and even tried a (%). But still getting error message.
Would appreciate alot if anyone could help me out and tell me what im doing wrong.
/thanks

Answer 1

Edit
Sidenote: Please read an explanation under "First answer given" further down below.
This version will take into account any blank lines in a file, if the content looks like:
1
2
3
// <- blank line
Sidenote: Please provide a sample of your text file. A comment has already been given to that effect.
PHP
<?php
// first line not required
// $file = file("textfile.txt");
$textfil = file_get_contents("textfile.txt");
$textfill = array_filter(array_map("trim", file("textfile.txt")), "strlen");
echo "Number of votes: " . count($textfill) . "<br>";
$sum = 0;
foreach ($textfill as $vote) {
$sum += intval($vote);
}
$avg = $sum / count($textfill);
echo "Average: " . $avg;
?>
First answer given
Using the following in a text file: (since no example of file content was given)
5
5
5
IMPORTANT NOTE: There should not be a carriage return after the last entry.
produced
Number of votes: 5
Average: 3
which is false, since there are 3 entries in the text file.
explode() should be used, and not str_split()
The following using the same text file produced:
Number of votes: 3
Average: 5
which is correct. In simple mathematics, averages are done by adding all numbers then dividing them by how many numbers there are.
In this case it's 3 numbers (all 5's) added equals 15, divided by 3 is 5.
Sidenote: The first line is not required $file = file("textfile2.txt");
<?php
// first line not required
// $file = file("textfile.txt");
$textfil = file_get_contents("textfile.txt");
$textfill = explode("\n", $textfil);
echo "Number of votes: " . count($textfill) . "<br>";
$sum = 0;
foreach ($textfill as $vote) {
$sum += intval($vote);
}
$avg = $sum / count($textfill);
echo "Average: " . $avg;
?>
Footnotes:
If the average comes out to 8.33333 and you would like it to be rounded off to 8, use:
echo "Average: " . floor($avg);
If the average comes out to 8.33333 and would like it to be as 9 you would use:
echo "Average: " . ceil($avg);
ceil() function
floor() function

Answer 2

You may be mixing in stuff that can't be divided, like text, etc. I don't know what your text file looks like. intval may be having a problem with arrays. You may try:
foreach ($textfill as $vote) {
if(is_int($vote) {
$sum += $vote;
}
}
echo "Average: " . $sum;

Answer 3

Lower school math says:
foreach ($textfill as $vote) {
$sum += intval($vote);
}
$avg = $sum / count($textfill);

Answer 4

The average value is calculated by divide the sum with the number of votes. This line will print the average value:
echo "Average: " . $sum/count($textfill);