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Getting and Average from a MySql table


billshackle

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How would i go about displaying an average? I have a page with data pulled from my main table in my database but i need an average which is in a different table i have tried;

[code]<? $query="SELECT avg( q6 ) FROM `survey`
avg(q6)";?><? print $avg ?>[/code]

but it doesn't seem to do anything. 'q6' is the column i need the info from and 'survey' is the table name.

Thanks in advance if anyone can shed some light on this for me.
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it doesn't do anything because you never executed the query. You constructed the query string:
$query="SELECT avg( q6 ) FROM `survey` avg(q6)" (which is incorrect syntax), but didn't execute with mysql_query(). You also didn't fetch the results.

try this:
[code]<?php
$query = "SELECT AVG(q6) AS avg FROM survey";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()."<br />Couldn't execute query: $query");
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo $row['avg'];
?>
[/code]
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