Re: php to generate statiscs

Does anybody knows the link to this article or other that treats something like this. I couldn;t find it in devshed. Rodrigo on 6/2/02 3:57 PM, John Holmes at holmes072000@charter.net wrote: > Look into cross-tab queries (I think that's what they are called). There > is a good article on Devshed.com about it. You can do a query like this > > SELECT SUM(IF(Gender='M'),1,0)) AS Male, SUM(IF(Gender='F',1,0)) AS > Female FROM table > > That'll give you two columns, one named Male, one named Female, in the > result set. The result set will have one row, containing the number of > males in the database in the Male column, the number of females in the > database in the second. > > You could probably do the majority of your "statistic" queries this way. > > ---John Holmes... > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rodrigo Peres [mailto:rperes@mac.com] >> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 2:02 PM >> To: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: [PHP] php to generate statiscs >> >> Hi list, >> >> Sorry if this is a off-topic, but I really don't know where to begin. > I >> have a mysql database with about 20.000 records, now I need to build a >> statistics panel to show for example how many of this record are male, >> female, lives in determinated city, school graduation etc, everything >> grouped by sex and alone too, present the respectives percentages > etc... >> How do I begin??? Can someone help?? >> >> thank's in advance >> >> Rodrigo Peres >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > --