Question

Hopefully this is a quick and easy question to answer.

I have a MySQL Database with the following fields:
shoe_size and waist_size

The shoe_size entries range anywhere from 3 to 21 (incrementing by halves– 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, etc).

The same is true for the waist_size entries.

My question is this:

Using PHP, how can I best consolidate this into a table that counts the total number of sizes, so that it could essentially be used as an Order Form?

For example, the MySQL table looks like this:

  ---------------------------------------------- 
  |     Name    |   shoe_size   |  waist_size  |
  ----------------------------------------------
  |      John   |      9.5      |      33      |
  ----------------------------------------------
  |     Steve   |       9       |      32      |
  ----------------------------------------------
  |     Tom     |      9.5      |      33      |
  ----------------------------------------------
  |    Sally    |       7       |       8      |
  ----------------------------------------------
  |    Jane     |       7       |       8      |
  ----------------------------------------------

And the output HTML (table?) would look something like this:

                ORDER FORM
  ------------------------------------------
  | Shoe Size     |   7   |   9   |   9.5  |
  ------------------------------------------
  | Total Pairs   |   2   |   1   |   2    |  <----- This is calculated from above
  ------------------------------------------

  ------------------------------------------
  | Waist Size    |   8   |   32   |   33  |
  ------------------------------------------
  | Total Pairs   |   2   |   1   |   2    |  <----- This is calculated from above
  ------------------------------------------

I’m not even sure if my format for the “Order Form” table is the best way to go on this. Any nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

MySQL might be enough for this task, try something like

SELECT shoe_size, COUNT(id) as count FROM table GROUP BY shoe_size ORDER BY shoe_size asc