Re: pulling numbers from a column and getting a total

Thanks Natalie and Miles! The loop thing worked. What I had tried before was put the echo inside the loop and it wasn't working, but now it does, w00t! Thanks! On 7/26/06, Miles Thompson <miles@allnovascotia.com> wrote:

At 10:27 AM 7/26/2006, Dave W wrote: Hi, I was just wondering on how I could get a whole column full of integers and added them up and display that total? I currently use a for loop to display the whole column in a table, but I wanted to add all those numbers up. Thanks. -- Dave W Dave, You're v. close to an answer. Think about it a bit. Initialize a variable before your loop, setting it to zero.

         $tot = 0;

In the loop, add the amount to that variable,

         $tot += $num_to_add;

OR

         $tot = $tot + $num_to_add;

After the loop, echo $tot. HTH - Miles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/399 - Release Date: 7/25/2006 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

-- Dave W