note 61084 deleted from function.rand by felipe

From: Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:38:59 +0000
Subject: note 61084 deleted from function.rand by felipe
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Note Submitter: •AlieN• ---- 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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