calculate sum total of all the figures in a column

Question

I have a table that I want to calculate the sum total of all the values in column \"Price\"

Answer 1

mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password);
mysql_select_db($db);

$sql = "select sum(column) from table";
$q = mysql_query($sql);
$row = mysql_fetch_array($q);

echo 'Sum: ' . $row[0];

Replace variable names and table/column names as needed.

Answer 2

Do you have any database connection? If not, you should read up on using MySQL in PHP.

If you do already know how to connect, you can still use that same example. :)

Answer 3

Do your select.

Get the value.

Echo it.

Thats just as much as I can help right now since i have no idea what you tried so far.

For example:

$some_q = " SELECT SUM(some_col) AS `count_col` FROM some_table";

$results = mysql_query($some_q) or die(mysql_error());

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)){
     echo $row['count_col'];
}