Re: RE: why does it not work (fwd)

From: Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:06:35 +0000
Subject: Re: RE: why does it not work (fwd)
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On 22 May 2001, Chris Searle wrote: > >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian D'Costa <adrian@pcsadvt.com> > >>>>> writes: > > Adrian> // sql statement $searchStmt = "select special.contid, > Adrian> special.cityid, special.curr1, special.catalogo, > Adrian> special.hf, special.curr2, special.vitofferta, special.fh, > Adrian> special.club, special.stars, city.city,RAND as r from > Adrian> special,city where DATE_SUB(special.periodo, INTERVAL 3 > Adrian> DAY) >'$tdate' and city.id=special.cityid order by r limit > Adrian> 1" ; > > So far as I know - the RAND function was introduced in 3.23 - at least > the order by RAND functionality. > > >From the docs: > > In MySQL Version 3.23, you can, however, do: SELECT * FROM table_name > ORDER BY RAND() If I cut and past this in the online mysql it works. It display the records randomly, why not in php? Adrian

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