How do I add all fields in a coulm?

[senseipt]

I have a rating system and I want to make a stats-page. On my stats-page I want to print the total number of ratings, so I guess I have to add all the fields in the "ratings"-column where the number of ratings per item is stored. How can this be done? (if possible at all...)

Thanks,
Sensei

[GoldFire]

#pulls them
$ratings = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("SELECT SUM(ratings) FROM table" ));
#prints them
print "".$ratings['0']."";