You have to be know SQL language to achieve this. I recommend you start getting familiar with this, it will open a whole world to you. Going by your example favorite having values 1-10: Table name: stats table fields: name, lastname,midinit,dob,country,state,address,favorite //backendfunction = odbc_exec( ), mysql_query( ), etc..... $query = "Select count(favorite) from stats group by favorite" ; $result = backendfunction($myconn,$query); This will give you a result with all the totals that you can later access using the functions to cycle through result sets. Rock & Roll! ----- Original Message ----- From: "js" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:07 PM Subject: counting a value i want to know what i can use to count the number of times a value appears in a column listing where different values are listed. for example, say in the column of Favorite Number we have 100 students, and for each student his or her own row. and each student can pick a number from 1-10. So, we have a column of 100 rows and each field can contain either 1-10. Now, i want to know how can i count the number of times lets say the #2 appears in this list and give that count a number. so if #2 appears 43 times in that column, then i want it to say "2 is listed 43 times." how do i do this? thank you for your help with my beginner newbie questions. -james -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
