Probably you should use two separate queries
otherwise you get Cartesian product.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL)
Question
I tried a few things, and so far this is the only thing not throwing an error, but the results wont echo on my page so I'm not quite sure what's going on.
$query = "SELECT SUM(sales.total) AS sales_total, SUM(expenses.total) AS expenses_total FROM sales,expenses";
Everything else is set up perfectly, I've just never had to call multiple tables before.
E.g. of How I am echoing within my HTML:
<? echo $row['SUM(sales_total)']; ?>
<? echo $row['SUM(expenses_total)']; ?>
Thanks!
EDIT: attached a picture of my nonsense :)
La solution
Probably you should use two separate queries
otherwise you get Cartesian product.
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL)
Autres conseils
This is a cartesian join and won't give you the results that you want.
$query = "SELECT SUM(sales.total) AS sales_total, SUM(expenses.total) AS expenses_total FROM sales,expenses";
You'll need to read up on inner joins to do this properly. Without more details, I can't advise you how to fix that query, other than doing two queries, one for each table. Since you are specifying an AS clause for each field, you'll need to modify your echoes to:
<? echo $row['sales_total']; ?>
<? echo $row['expenses_total']; ?>
Hope that helps!
UPDATE: revising the query to produce the desired results:
$query = "SELECT sales_summary.sales_total,
expenses_summary.expenses_total
FROM (SELECT SUM(sales.total) AS sales_total
FROM sales) sales_summary,
(SELECT SUM(expenses.total) AS expenses_total
FROM expenses) expenses_summary";