I've been searching for the better part of five days (no joke, don't want to bother you guys for nothing), but I can't seem to be getting this right. I want to display the total amount of a column (tech) on the screen using a function in PHP. Don't worry, the $day part works in other functions. I don't think it is part of the problem. Thank you in advance.
function calc_tech($day){
include("connect.php"); // include database connection
$res = $mysqli -> query(" SELECT * FROM sales WHERE day = $day ") or die($mysqli->error); // Fetch data from the table
while($val = $res -> fetch_array()){
$tech_total = $val[tech] += $val[tech];
}
echo $tech_total; // Echo the result
//echo "42";
$res -> free(); // Free the query results
$mysqli -> close(); // Close mysqli object
}
My database table looks like this:
You need to make the SUM() the column in the query :
function calc_tech($mysqli,$day){
//Prepare your query first
$stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT SUM(tech) FROM sales WHERE day=?");
// then bind the parameter
$stmt->bind_param("s", $day);
// then execute the query
$stmt->execute();
$result = $stmt->get_result();
// fetch and return the result
return $result->fetch_row()[0];
}
include("connect.php"); // include database connection
echo calc_tech($mysqli,$day); // get the result