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BadGoat

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Hello!

I am trying to echo the sum of the records in a table and it returns empty.

[code]
$query = "SELECT SUM(number) AS total FROM records";
            $result = mysql_query($query);
            echo 'the total is:';
            echo $total;[/code]

When I echo the query it appears as above, when I echo the $result it says Resource ID#5. When I echo $total is is empty. What am I doing wrong?
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$result content is the resource id...you must fetch to get something

and also, php won´t guess what is $total...

try this:
[code]
<?php
$query = "SELECT SUM(number) AS total FROM records";
            $result = mysql_query($query);
            list($total) = mysql_fetch_row($result); // look at php.net to learn more about this
            echo 'the total is:';
            echo $total;
?>
[/code]
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