# Add 2 columns with php

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-2-columns-with-php/57530>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 14, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-2-columns-with-php/57530 "2004-07-14T00:20:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![lbeetles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@lbeetles](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lbeetles)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-2-columns-with-php/57530/1 "2004-07-14T00:20:51Z")

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I have a mySql db and i am outputting it with php. What i want to do is add 2 columns in the db and then output it as 1 number i.e. col1=2 + col2=2 total=4.

Does anyone know how i can do this???

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-2-columns-with-php/57530/2 "2004-07-14T00:22:43Z")

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$row[‘col1’] + $row[‘col2’] = result 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/add-2-columns-with-php/57530/3 "2004-07-14T09:47:10Z")

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cheers i sorted it out.

$result = $row[‘col1’] + $row[‘col2’]