Get total from mysql fields - php

Question

I have prices set up in a simple mysql table and I would like to output the total price of the "services" they selected. I was able to achieve this using Laravel 4 however only way I knew how to do it was using a foreach loop. But that returns all the records that have a service and then adds them as each row is returned. How can I get just the last row returned in the foreachloop? Or is their a better method?
Foreach
#foreach ($serviceSummary as $services)
<tr><td>Total:</td><td>{{{ $zero += $services->price }}}</td></tr>
#endforeach
Var Dump from table
var_dump($serviceSummary); die;
array(2) {
[0]=>
object(stdClass)#211 (9) {
["id"]=>
string(1) "1"
["userID"]=>
string(1) "1"
["services"]=>
string(1) "1"
["price"]=>
string(4) "8.95"
["created_at"]=>
string(19) "2013-10-08 19:55:47"
["updated_at"]=>
string(19) "2013-10-08 19:55:47"
["service"]=>
string(20) "Service"
["count"]=>
string(1) "1"
["label"]=>
string(2) "RC"
}
[1]=>
object(stdClass)#212 (9) {
["id"]=>
string(1) "1"
["userID"]=>
string(1) "1"
["services"]=>
string(1) "1"
["price"]=>
string(4) "8.95"
["created_at"]=>
string(19) "2013-10-08 20:38:56"
["updated_at"]=>
string(19) "2013-10-08 20:38:56"
["service"]=>
string(20) "Service"
["count"]=>
string(1) "1"
["label"]=>
string(2) "RC"
}
}
basically what it looks like when printed is:
Total: 8.95
Total: 17.9
I obviously would like it to be just the total 17.9

Answer 1

Wouldn't Laravel's query builder function sum() do the trick?
In your controller:
$totalCost = DB::table('tableName')
->sum('price');
return View::make('your.view', array('totalCost' => $totalCost));
And then in your blade template:
Total: {{{ $totalCost }}}