|  | Posted by strawberry on 07/12/06 23:42 
flamer die.spam@hotmail.com wrote:> danny_m wrote:
 >
 > > Hi there
 > >
 > > I have two tables, pages and sections, of which pages are a subset of
 > > sections. I'm listing out the sections in a list and want to include a
 > > COUNT of how many pages each section has within it.
 > >
 > > Pages contain a 'sectionid' field to join it to the 'id' in the seciton
 > > table but im unsure how to join, and group  to get a count of the
 > > number of pages in each section (i.e. in each result row)
 > >
 > > If anyone can point me in the right direction, id be eternally greatful
 > > :-)
 >
 > not sure if this is what you need exactly, but if your running two
 > separate mysql queries on the same page just:
 >
 > $totalrows = mysql_num_rows($query1)+mysql_num_rows($query2);
 >
 > Flamer.
 
 the syntax will be along the lines of:
 
 select s.section, sum(p.page) from sections s
 left join pages on p.section_id = l.section_id
 group by section_id
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