Sorry for the simple question but I'm having a brain-fart here. I'm searching records in a database to find a revenue number. It works fine if there is only one record, but if there is more than one record returned, how do I added the numbers up?
$SQL = "select * from datbase where (TO_DAYS(NOW())-TO_DAYS(dateadded) +<1)"; # look for records less than 1 day old &Do_SQL; while ($pointer = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) { $total = $pointer->{'total'}; if ($total eq "3") { $revenue = 30; } elsif ($total eq "6") { $revenue = 60; } elsif ($total eq "10") { $revenue = 100; } } $sth->finish();
So if the first record returns a $total=3 and the second record returns a $total= 6, how do I keep track and add them together so the total revenue is accurate.? I'm going in circles.


In reply to Adding numbers from a loop by htmanning

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