note 61084 added to function.rand
| From: | AlieN at osu1 dot php dot net | Date: | Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:48:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 61084 added to function.rand | ||
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About selecting random row from a MySQL table (much faster thand MySQL's rand function:
$tot=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM
sometable WHERE
(condition)"));
$row=rand(0,$tot);
$res=mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM sometable WHERE (condition) LIMIT
$row,1"));
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