I have tried a bit of searching, and as a result found the count() function to get me closer to my goal, but have stopped a bit. Here's what my code looks like now:
$sql = "SELECT COUNT( * ) as Count
FROM AttendanceDB
WHERE YEAR( class_time ) = '2015'
AND studentid = '$studentid'
AND furikae = 0
GROUP BY MONTH( class_time )";
Then I use echo $row['Count'];
to output the data.
This allows me to total the number of rows per month for the year of 2015 and then output the answer. Now what I want to do is output the month in each row along with the total. I could just preformat everything, but there are some studentids which have entries beginning partway through the year, which means that the first months don't output any results.
How can I SELECT both the month from the DB as well as use the count function at the same time? Thanks
Here is what I think will help you:
$sql = "SELECT MONTH( class_time ) AS month, COUNT( * ) as Count
FROM AttendanceDB
WHERE YEAR( class_time ) = '2015'
AND studentid = '$studentid'
AND furikae = 0
GROUP BY MONTH( class_time )";
You could use an agregator function
$sql = "SELECT COUNT( * ),max(YOUR MONTH COLUMN) as MONTH as Count
FROM AttendanceDB
WHERE YEAR( class_time ) = '2015'
AND studentid = '$studentid'
AND furikae = 0
GROUP BY MONTH( class_time )";
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How about:
$sql = "SELECT MONTH(class_time) AS m, COUNT(*) AS c
FROM AttendanceDB WHERE YEAR(class_time) = '2015'
AND studentid = '$studentid'
AND furikae = 0
GROUP BY m";
This way you'll have the month as a separate column, which will also show in the result as $row['m']
and the count per month as $row['c']
. (I avoid the same names as the MySQL function names, hence the m
and c
.)