Re: Display just 1 record in a query

dealtek@gmail.com wrote:

On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

Depends on how you're creating running the query. You could do something like: echo mysql_result($result, 1, 'fieldname'); Where $result is your result object and 1 is a 0 indexed array, so would be the second result.

Thanks Ryan, Ashley & Kim for the good techniques... - in my case I was trying to pull a random record from a query of Table1 - then do a 2nd query from 1st so mysql_result worked fine for my needs like: ... do query 1... 'cur' - SELECT id FROM myTable1 $ran = rand(0, $totalRows_cur - 1); // pick random rec row within total count $pick1 = mysql_result($cur, $ran); // get the ID from the choice - (like id=252) ... do query 2 // where relatedID = $pick1 of myTable2

Put your random logic into the query:

    SELECT
        something
    FROM
        somewhere
    WHERE
        condition
    ORDER BY
        RAND()
    LIMIT
        1

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