The best way to extract data from MySQL

Question

I have a MySQL db that contains information about whether respondents are coming to an airshow, what days they plan to attend and how will they travel (www.hollisterairshow.com/helpusplan.php . I can export data from this to a spreadsheet as the summary info will only be seen by the organizers but ideally I'd like to create a page that will summarize responses. Something like this:
Saturday
Autos: xxxxx Occupants: yyyyyy
Aircraft: xxxxx Occupants: yyyyyy
Other: xxxxx Occupants: yyyyyy
Sunday
Autos: xxxxx Occupants: yyyyy
Aircraft: xxxxx Occupants: yyyyy
Other: xxxxx Occupants: yyyyy
Camping: xxxxx Occupants: yyyyy
How did you hear about the Airshow:
Radio: xxx TV: xxx Newspaper: xxx Magazine: xxx Internet: xxx Other: xxx 
I thought I would create a couple of recordsets, one for respondents who will attend on Saturday and the other for respondents who will attend on Sunday then all I'd need to do is count the number of respondents and sum the number of occupants for each recordset, and count/ sum campers for the whole file and similarly for the "how did you hear about it" question. Is this the best way or am I missing a more elegant solution?
Thanks,
Tony 

Answer 1

The page I'm trying to create is here www.hollisterairshow.com/plan-results.php and the questionnaire is here www.hollisterairshow.com/helpusplan.php .
I went ahead and created recordsets using advanced recordsets and these seem to be working, here's a sample SQL
SELECT *
FROM plan
WHERE Saturday = 'Saturday' AND plan.howArriving = 'Auto'
I created a recordset for each combination of day and transportation mode - six in all
This selected the correct records.
To display the count of how many records selected I then used in DW Insert/Data Objects/ Display Record Count/Total Records which generated the following code:
<?php echo $totalRows_rsSatAuto ?>
This worked OK - not elegant but OK and I repeated it for each combination of Day and Transportation mode!!
So there are two problems I'm having:
I know I can select the records I want but how do I display the sum of the column containing "How many in your party" - i.e. in the PHP code generated above what do I replace $totalRows_rsSatAuto with?
There are two questions using radio buttons where I'd like to display the count and % for each option selected. I can select all records for these questions but what code do I put to sum the number of selections for each option and what code do I put to calculate the percentage
I understand the arithmetic involved which is pretty simple but it's the mechanics of coding that has me stumped. It would really help if you could give me a sample for say the "Are you camping overnight" question which has a "Yes/No" option only. In my mundane way I would create two recordsets, one for "Yes" and one for "No", and use the same technique I describe above for counting Total Records in each recordset, but then I'm stuck with how do I calculate and display the percentages. I must be missing something very obvious as I'm sure there just has to be a more elegant solution.
Thanks so much for your continued interest.
Tony