RE: [PHP] random generation
| From: | Lawrence dot Sheed at dfait-maeci dot gc dot ca | Date: | Tue, 17 Oct 2000 05:26:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] random generation | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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why not
select * from questions
put results into a mysql_array, and then
shuffle_array?
Not that this is necessarily a good way to do it...
-----Original Message-----
From: Kapil Bodhankar [mailto:kapil@archeanit.com]
Sent: October 17, 2000 01:24 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] random generation
hi guys,
i would like to get random questions displayed for my online
examination.how do i get them displayed.i want to get 60 questions
displayed randomly one after the other whenever i reload a page.
infact i tried this:
select * from questions order by Rand(); in Mysql,
but this doesnot work. is there any other way to do it?
--
Kapil
Web Developer
kapil@archeanit.com
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