Trying to get the sum of all votes from my voting table but i get an error

Question

<?php

$totalvotes = ("SELECT COUNT(*) AS total FROM voting WHERE votes >= 0 ");

    $totalvotesresults = mysql_query( $totalvotes )
or die( "Could not get total votes " .mysql_error() );

$data = mysql_fetch_array( $totalvotesresults );
echo "<div>Total number of votes is ". $data['votes'] ."</div>\n";;
?>

Answer 1

You call the result of your COUNT(*) query total but use votes in your PHP:

echo "<div>Total number of votes is ". $data['votes'] ."</div>\n";

should be:

echo "<div>Total number of votes is ". $data['total'] ."</div>\n";

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