Question

I’m storing values (int) for quantities in my database. I need to run a count on the total quantity by adding all the row totals together. The problem with $this->db->count_all_results() is that it returns the total rows but doesn’t count all the values stored. Any help would be much appreciated.

function currentDealTotalQuantity($id)
{

    $this->db->select('quantity');

    $this->db->from('table');

    $this->db->where('id', $id);

    $total_sold = $this->db->count_all_results();

    if ($total_sold > 0)
    {
        return $total_sold;
    }

    return NULL;

}

Answer 1

function currentDealTotalQuantity($id)
{

    $this->db->select_sum('quantity');

    $this->db->from('table');

    $this->db->where('id', $id);

    $query = $this->db->get();

    $total_sold = $query->row()->quantity;

    if ($total_sold > 0)
    {
        return $total_sold;
    }

    return NULL;

}