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I am wanting to display a random page from my site, But I have over
12,000 articles right now and we add over 150 per day. What I wound up
doing was a Virtual DOS attack on my own server because the 40 mb db was
being loaded to many times.
I have tons of memory and a Dell Dual Xeon 2.8 gig.
Can someone think up a better way of doing this? I wish Mysql would
just bring me back 1 valid random row It could be used in so many ways
it should just be a part of MySql anyway.
<?php
ini_set("display_errors", '1');
header("Pragma: private");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
require_once("firebase.conf.php");
$dbi = new DBI(DB_URL);
$stmt = "Select * from firebase_content Order By rand() DESC Limit 0,
1";
$result = $dbi->query($stmt);
while($row = $result->fetchRow())
{
$title = $row->title;
$cate = $row->category;
$get = "Select cat_url from firebase_categories where
cat_name='$cate'";
$now = $dbi->query($get);
$rows = $now->fetchRow();
$url = $rows->cat_url;
$link = $url . $title;
}
header("Location: http://www.prnewsnow.com/$link";);
exit;
/* Sudo code that I am trying to create to relieve server stress.
function randomRow(table, column) {
var maxRow = query("SELECT MAX($column) AS maxID FROM $table");
var randomID;
var randomRow;
do {
randomID = randRange(1, maxRow.maxID);
randomRow = query("SELECT * FROM $table WHERE $column = $randomID");
} while (randomRow.recordCount == 0); return randomRow;
}
*/
?>
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Try this ...
SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY RAND(NOW()) LIMIT 1;
12000 rows is not huge at all, so this should be pretty quick
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