ORDER BY RAND()....
| From: | Payne | Date: | Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:24:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | ORDER BY RAND().... | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi,
I have been working on a simple PHP script that called to a mysql database, where I do the following....
SELECT url FROM sponsors ORDER BY RAND();
When I do a refresh I keep getting the same url, I have test this sql statement in mysql and it works great. I think my problem is this...
Here is my php script....
<?
$db = mysql_connect("69.15.40.130","cepayne","death");
mysql_select_db("links",$db);
$result = mysql_query("SELECT url FROM sponsors order by rand() LIMIT 1", $db);
if ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo"<table width='500' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>";
do {
printf("<tr><td>%s</td></tr>\n",$myrow[url]);
} while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result));
} else {
echo "Sorry, no message of day today";
}
echo "</table>"?> I know that what I have got here must be the problem because this code was use to get mutli line of results. Is there a way to retype this so that I only get the one statement I need? Payne