Mysql count column issue - php

Question

I can't figure-it out how to count all these dancers columns and echo with total of all dancers
id | dancer1 | dancer2 | dancer3 | dancer4, and so on..
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1 alex michael dalm name
2 clare rose test
I have this for the start but is not working:
$counter = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) AS id FROM table");
$num = mysql_fetch_array($counter);
$dancers = $num["id"];
echo "Total dancers: $dancers";
Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this:
$counter = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table");
$dancers = 0;
while($rows = mysql_fetch_array($counter)){
for($i = 1; $i <= 24; $i++){
$dan_id = 'dancer'.$i;
if($rows[$dan_id] != "" || $rows[$dan_id] != null )
$dancers++;
}
}
echo "Total dancers:". $dancers;
Note: Never design your database table like this.

Answer 2

I would actually save your dancers in a different (easier) way... For examle:
ID NAME SURNAME PHONE ....
1 Anna Brickstone 0975 ...
2 Jef Damen 0754 ...
That way you could use the following code to count tables:
$dancersCount="0";
$sql = "SELECT * FROM dancers";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$dancersCount++;
}
} else {
echo "No dancers..";
}
echo"$dancersCount";
The counter will count +1 each time it finds a row (dancer)
If you really want to do it that way...
Then I don't really think there's an easy way to fix this... You will probably need to check how many columns you have in your database but that's not something i can help you with...

Answer 3

You need to change your table structure:
id | dancerNumber | name
1 1 alex
2 1 clare
3 2 michael
4 2 rose
5 3 dalm
6 3 test
7 4 name
8 4 dana
SELECT COUNT(*) AS id FROM table will return 8 dancers. If this is what you were looking for?
if you want to keep your structure then you need to do the following sql query
SELECT dancer1,
dancer2,
dancer3,
(CASE WHEN (dancer1 <> "" AND dancer1 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
CASE WHEN (dancer2 <> "" AND dancer2 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
CASE WHEN (dancer3 <> "" AND dancer3 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS COUNTER
FROM table
This will count all the non empty and non null columns and add a counter at the end of the table. this counter will then contain the number of dancers with your structure.
Full answer with your php code
$query = 'SELECT (CASE WHEN (dancer1 <> "" AND dancer1 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
CASE WHEN (dancer2 <> "" AND dancer2 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END +
CASE WHEN (dancer3 <> "" AND dancer3 IS NOT NULL) THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS COUNTER
FROM table'
$counter = mysql_query($query);
$num = mysql_fetch_array($counter);
$dancers = $num["COUNTER"];
echo "Total dancers: $dancers";