Using Sum In Mysql

[phpjayx]

$TOTAL5 = "SUM(NUMBER5) from Data where userid='" . $param['userid'];

 

 

Am I doing this incorrectly? I'm not getting the sum of all the NUMBER5 where the userid is as defined....

 

 

Thanks for the help

[requinix]

Given that single line of code it's quite possible to recover from its problems and continue on correctly... but I doubt that's the case. There's no "SELECT" and there's a missing quote. And no indication the query is actually being run.

 

Post more code.

[phpjayx]

$sql_select = "SELECT *, SUM(NUMBER5) from Data where userid='" . $param['userid'] . "' order by timestamp asc";

 

$query = mysql_query($sql_select, $link);

 

$result = mysql_fetch_array($query);

return $result;

 

 

This is the other code I was trying to play with... again, I haven't gotten it to work. So I'm sure there are lots of things wrong with it.... I'm a newbie with this stuff.

[sowna]

I think combining * and aggregate function in select query together will not give right answer...

 

You can use like this, to get sum of number5,

 

$sql_select = "SELECT SUM(NUMBER5) from Data where userid='" . $param['userid'] . "' order by timestamp asc";

 

or if you want to find sum of all users, you can use like this...

 

$sql_select = "SELECT userid, SUM(NUMBER5) from Data group by userid";

[phpjayx]

Ok, thanks for the help that helped me get this below to work.... but now I need to add onto this... If I have an unkown number of userid's I want to add up, which will be stored in one field (OWNEROF), this will be comma dilleniated (example 14, 23, 49).... So still adding up NUMBER5, but where userid= any of those values... How do I get that into the below query?

 

Along the same lines... is there a way in the database itself to assign a field to always SUM values?

 

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$query = "SELECT *, SUM(NUMBER5) FROM Data where userid='" . $param['userid'] . "' order by timestamp asc";

 

$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());

 

// Print out result

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){

echo "Total ". $row['type']. " = ^". $row['SUM(NUMBER5)'];

echo "<br />";

}

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[Barand]

Don't store the ids as comma delimited lists in a single field. Normalize your data properly and put them in a separate table, one per row with the id of the owning record.

 

Also, are you sure you want to SUM the ids (meaningless) or do you want a COUNT.

[phpjayx]

Thanks for the suggestion, that makes sense.... I will try to put it in a separate column instead of comma delimited. Yes I do need to SUM it, but its not the IDs that IM summing its NUMBER5.

[Jessica]

If I have an unkown number of userid's I want to add up, which will be stored in one field (OWNEROF), this will be comma dilleniated (example 14, 23, 49).... So still adding up NUMBER5, but where userid= any of those values... How do I get that into the below query?

 

you don't. You NEED to normalize your data.