Counting responses

My need is not standard for GF so I am looking for any input from the community on how I might achieve it -- no expectations.

It is similar to
http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/is-it-possible-to-tabulate-the-responses-to-a-form

Here is what I want to do:

What colour would you like the living room: a) blue b) green c) red
What colour would you like the kitchen: a) blue b) green c) red
and so on....

Then I want the results to show

You chose:
Blue: 7 times
Green: 3 times
Red: 1 times

You are mainly a Blue person.

The last bit I think I could work out with Chris Hajer's code:
http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/making-a-result-page-based-on-conditional-logic

I have tried a number of approaches including turning "blue" into a product with a $1 price, but of course there is no subtotal field for separate products. Thought of using Options then Conditional the Total on the option, but it doesn't really work either.

My first thought was that this has to be easier than it appears because it is after all just counting. My problem is that I can't count my nose using Select statements and PHP which is what I'm guessing is required here. I'm thinking if I had the right code I could put it into an HTML field which could then be presented in a Post Body template.

But then, my last thought is that it must be much more difficult than it seems since none of the poll or voting plugins I've found will do this either.

You do see the difference in what I am trying to do precisely - the total number of times a particular answer is given.

It was a simplified example, but does reflect almost exactly what I want.

It is simplified in that my application would have five to ten characteristics rather than 3 colours. The characteristics are not directly selected, but a Value is assigned.

So this would be what the form would show - multiple choice field with Values

'In my kitchen I prefer
to feel like I'm on the ocean -- value blue
a clean no-nonsense environment -- value white
intensity and creativity -- value red'

There might be many other questions with these red, white, red or other values.

I want to total the number of times each value was selected.

Is that a clearer explanation?

The components really are arbitrary. It's just a paired list of statements and values.

Hi CW,

This hook is a good place to start:

http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_confirmation

This hook passes the $entry which contains all of the selected values. You can loop through these values and tally up the totals, displaying the appropriate message depending on the outcome.

Hi CW,

Here is a working example:

http://pastie.org/2993675

Just paste it in your theme's functions.php and update as needed.

Glad to hear. :)

I'm going to go ahead and close this topic; but if you have any other questions on this please feel free to create a new topic and reference this one. :)