How to calculate average on star rating system?

Question

I am developing a star rating system with 1-5 stars. In my database I am saving them like this:

$stars_1 = 1;
$stars_2 = 6;
$stars_3 = 3;
$stars_4 = 11;
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Answer 1

You need to multiply the number of stars with the actual rating. Like

$points_stars_2 = $stars_2 * 2  
...  
$points_stars_5 = $stars_5 * 5 

And then you add them all to one variable like in your code, and then divide it by $total_votes.

Regards

Answer 2

Needs to be like this:

($stars_1 + $stars_2 * 2 + $stars_3 * 3 + $stars_4 * 4 + $stars_5 * 5) / $total_votes;