Counting total in column ...problem

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November 27th, 2002, 01:10 PM

littleblackdog

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Counting total in column ...problem

I've been working with this little problem for some time now...here is as close as I've come:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

$db_name = "aqua_books";

$table_name = "bookinput";

$quantity = "quantity";

$connection = @mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "password") or die(mysql_error());

$db = @mysql_select_db($db_name, $connection) or die(mysql_error());

$query = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT($quantity) FROM $table_name");

$rows = mysql_result($query, 0, 0);

echo "<strong>" .$rows. "</strong>";

?>

This only prints "3" since there are three book titles in the database.

I am looking for the number of books total (quantity) the column "quantity" is an INT with currently 22 total books. One cell has 20 books, all with same title...

Any suggestions?
Thanks for everyones help.

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November 27th, 2002, 01:51 PM

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Instead of using COUNT($quantity) try using SUM($quantity). That should give you the summation of all the numbers in the quantity field.

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November 27th, 2002, 02:03 PM

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THAT DID IT!

That did it! SUM($quantity) did the trick! Thanks to markerdave and everyone else at this forum who takes the time to help.

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