how to subtract two table in php mysql

Question

i have two table in mysql 1st is fees and 2nd is expenses

i want fees table subtract in to expenses table

how can i do this please help me to fix this issue thanks

fees table

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id | name | grn | fees|
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expence table
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id | invoice | amount
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this table showing only sum of 1st fees table

  // connect to the database
     include('connect-db.php');


    $sql = "select sum(fees) from fees";
    $q = mysql_query($sql);
    $row = mysql_fetch_array($q);

    echo 'Sum: ' . $row[0];

This is showing like this 23445 only 1st table result

and i want like  this
  23445 fees table result
- 3234  expense table result
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  20211 total income 
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Answer 1

So store the results in a variable and subtract it, SIMPLEST WAY YOU CAN DO IT

$fees_amt = mysql_query($sql); //Returns say 10
$exp_amt = mysql_query($sql2); //Returns 5
$tot_amt = $fees_amt - $exp_amt;

echo $tot_amt;

Answer 2

Here you go:

// connect to the database
include('connect-db.php');


$sql = "select sum(fees) from fees";
$q = mysql_query($sql);
$fees = mysql_fetch_array($q);

$sql = "select sum(amount) from expence";
$q = mysql_query($sql);
$expense = mysql_fetch_array($q);

echo 'Fees: ' . $fees[0].'<br>';
echo 'Expenses: ' . $expense[0].'<br>';
echo 'Income: ' . ($fees[0] - $expense[0]) .'<br>';

Note:

Don't use mysql_* family functions because they are going to deprecated. Start to look into mysqli or pdo