(PHP 4 >= 4.0.4)
array_sum -- 
     Calculate the sum of values in an array.
    
Description
mixed 
array_sum ( array array)
     array_sum() returns the sum of values
     in an array as an integer or float.
    
     
| Example 1. array_sum() examples | $a = array(2, 4, 6, 8);
echo "sum(a) = ".array_sum($a)."\n";
$b = array("a"=>1.2,"b"=>2.3,"c"=>3.4);
echo "sum(b) = ".array_sum($b)."\n"; | 
 
       The printout of the program above will be:
        | 
    Note: 
      PHP versions prior to 4.0.6 modified the passed array
      itself and converted strings to numbers (which most
      of the time converted them to zero, depending on
      their value).