one simple way would be to fetch all the records, then generate two non-equal random numbers in the range of found records, then pluck those two out of the result array. The returned records are numbered 0-10 in that array so it will be very simple to do!
http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php Regards, Don On May 19, 5:56 am, Sarpidon <epap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I have a companies table and those companies have promotions. Each > company can have up to 10 promotions but only 2 can be displayed from > each company at one time. I've been trying to figure out how to > generate a single query that will select only 2 promotions randomly > from each company. Is that even possible? > > see screenshot attached -->http://screencast.com/t/dB2sqcEns > > so basically randomly select only 2 promotions with the same > company_id... > possible? how? > > Thank you for your time. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
