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March 30th, 2004, 12:57 AM

exequor

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doing an addition

i used this code to find the total of a field

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$sql = "SELECT SUM(nreplies) AS total FROM frm_topics WHERE forumid = $forumid"; $tot = mysql_query($sql); echo $tot;

 
$sql = "SELECT SUM(nreplies) AS total FROM frm_topics WHERE forumid = $forumid";
$tot = mysql_query($sql);
echo $tot;

but it returns Resource id #21. How do i get the correct result?

March 30th, 2004, 05:33 AM

cjrobs

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RE: doing an addition

You've not retrevied the data from the SQL Result

Try

php Code:

Original - php Code
<? $sql = "SELECT SUM(nreplies) AS total FROM frm_topics WHERE forumid = $forumid"; $result = mysql_query($sql); $array = mysql_fetch_array($result); $tot = $array['total']; echo $tot; ?>

 
<?
$sql = "SELECT SUM(nreplies) AS total FROM frm_topics WHERE forumid = $forumid";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$array = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$tot = $array['total'];
echo $tot;
?>

March 30th, 2004, 07:18 PM

exequor

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RE: doing an addition

thank you very much cjrobs. I really needed that for my forum.

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