The Sum Of All Rows: Use PHP or MySQL to Do The Math?

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Well it works  

PHP Code:

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<?php // db connect $sql = "SELECT sum( points ) FROM `mybb_users` "; $result=mysql_query($sql) or die('Error query failed'); $row = mysql_fetch_array( $result ); echo $row[0]; mysql_close($link); ?>

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A simple:  echo $result; doesn't work...
I wasn't expecting to use 'mysql_fetch_array' to finish off this time, but it does work. Is there a  better way to turn the "sum()" type of ( $result ) into a usable variable?