SELECT SUM data rank and Resource id #9 error PHP - php

Question

I have a website in which logged in members are stored under a table called ‘users’
‘users’ table
users_sales_guild_id | users_first_name | users_surname
555 | Jane | Smith
333 | John | Smith
111 | Mike | Myers
The users have sales data in a 'sales_points' field which is in a separate table called ‘sales_list’.
‘sales_list’ table
sales_id | users_sales_guild_id | sales_points | sales_entry_date
1 | 555 | 50 | 2013-02-31 00:00:00
2 | 333 | 30 | 2013-02-31 00:00:00
3 | 111 | 10 | 2013-02-31 00:00:00
4 | 555 | 50 | 2013-03-31 00:00:00
5 | 333 | 30 | 2013-03-31 00:00:00
6 | 111 | 10 | 2013-03-31 00:00:00
Essentially what I am trying to do is a query which:
A. Calculates the total amount of 'sales_points' for each user from 'sales_list'
B. Lists 100 users with the user having the most points at the top, then ranking the next highest below and so on...
C. Im not after a ranking number, just the order itself.
With the code below I am getting 100 users printing ok, however I am getting a ‘Resource id #9’ message in the ’Total Points’ column when it prints. Can anyone help?
What I am trying to print
Jane Smith | 100
John Smith | 60
Mike Myers | 20
Code:
<?php
require_once ('config.inc.php');
$page_title = '';
include ('header.html');
if (!isset($_SESSION['users_id'])) {
$url = 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']
. dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
// Check for a trailing slash.
if ((substr($url, -1) == '/') OR (substr($url, -1) == '\\') ) {
$url = substr ($url, 0, -1); // Chop off the slash.
}
// Add the page.
$url .= 'login.php';
ob_end_clean(); // Delete the buffer.
header("Location: $url");
exit(); // Quit the script.
}?>
<h1>Rankings</h1>
<?php require_once ('database.php'); // Connect to the database.
$total = mysql_query("SELECT SUM(sales_points) FROM sales_list,users WHERE sales_list.users_sales_guild_id = users.users_sales_guild_id
AND sales_entry_date
BETWEEN '2013-10-01 00:00:00' AND '2013-11-30 23:59:59'
" );
$query = "SELECT us.users_id, us.dealership_id, us.users_sales_guild_id, us.users_first_name, us.users_surname, us.users_type,
de.dealership_id, de.users_dealer_name, de.class , de.region, de.state, de.users_dealer_code_id, de.users_dealer_code_new_id, de.users_model, de.pma
FROM users AS us, dealerships AS de
WHERE us.dealership_id = de.dealership_id
ORDER BY ’$total’ DESC
LIMIT 100";
$result = #mysql_query ($query);
// Table header.
echo '<table width="680"cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" style="font-size:12px;">
<tr class="orangehead">
<td align="center"><b>Member</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Title</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Dealer</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Category</a></b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Dealer Code</a></b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Total Points</a></b></td>
</tr>';
// Fetch and print all the records. echo '<td align="left"><strong>' . $row['sp_invoice_no'] . '</strong></td> ';
$bg = '#ffffff'; // Set the background color.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$bg = ($bg=='#eaeced' ? '#ffffff' : '#eaeced'); // Switch the background color. New: ' . $row['users_sales_guild_new_id'] . '
// $entries = floor($row['sp_entry_amount']/200);
echo '<tr bgcolor="' . $bg . '">';
echo '<td align="left"><strong>' . $row['users_first_name'] . ' ' . $row['users_surname'] . '</strong></td> ';
echo '<td align="center">' . $row['users_type'] . ' </td>';
echo '<td align="center"> ' . $row['users_dealer_name'] . ' </td>';
echo '<td align="center"> ' . $row['class'] . ' </td>';
echo '<td align="center"> ' . $row['users_sales_guild_id'] . ' </td>';
echo '<td align="center"> ' . $total . '</td>';
echo '</tr>
';
}
echo '</table>';
mysql_free_result ($result); // Free up the resources.
mysql_close(); // Close the database connection.
include ('footer.html'); // Include the HTML footer.
?>

Answer 1

You don't fetch you first result. Fetch it as an array (mysql_fetch_array()) for example.
// Execute query
$total_query = mysql_query("SELECT SUM(sales_points)
FROM sales_list, users
WHERE sales_list.users_sales_guild_id = users.users_sales_guild_id
AND sales_entry_date
BETWEEN '2013-10-01 00:00:00' AND '2013-11-30 23:59:59'");
// Fetch result
$total = mysql_fetch_array($total_query);

Answer 2

You echo this:
$total = mysql_query("SELECT SUM(sales_points) FROM sales_list,users WHERE sales_list.users_sales_guild_id = users.users_sales_guild_id
AND sales_entry_date
BETWEEN '2013-10-01 00:00:00' AND '2013-11-30 23:59:59'
" );
The variable $total contains the result of the query, which is a Resource. You should use mysql_fetch_assoc or a similar function to extract the result itself. It's best to give the SUM(sales_points) an alias, i.e. AS total_sales_points so you can fetch is easily.
By the way, the mysql_*-extension is soon-to-be deprecated. Good alternatives include MySQLi and PDO.

Answer 3

$query = mysql_query("SELECT SUM(sales_points) as points FROM sales_list,users WHERE sales_list.users_sales_guild_id = users.users_sales_guild_id
AND sales_entry_date
BETWEEN '2013-10-01 00:00:00' AND '2013-11-30 23:59:59'
" );
$row = mysql_fetch_object($query);
$total = $row->points;
You are echoing the mysql resource, you first need to fetch the results, then you can echo them.