Question

Trying to search through a column in a db, and pull out the total number of males, and total number of females.

This data is stored in the db as f and m in the whatsex column.

    $query = "SELECT whatsex, COUNT(*) FROM soberdata GROUP BY whatsex";
    $result = mysqli_query($connection,$query) or die(mysql_error());
    $sexdb = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
    $totalmale = $sexdb['m'];
    $totalfemale = $sexdb['f'];
    echo $totalfemale." & ".$totalmale;

This code outputs nothing. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

$sexdb have only “whatsex” and “COUNT(*)” columns. You should use one of them

try

print_r($sexdb); 

and look if some of results meet your needs