3.23.54 on Linux. And it worked. Thx. Seems to be "not so random", but then with more records to sample from the "randomness" would increase. True?
-----Original Message----- From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 2:33 PM To: Darren Young; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Random Selects At 12:33 -0600 3/8/03, Darren Young wrote: >I have a table called testimonials: > >+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ >| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | >+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ >| id | tinyint(3) | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | >| can_use | tinyint(1) | | | 0 | | >| name | varchar(64) | | | 0 | | >| location | varchar(64) | | | 0 | | >| quote | text | | | | | >+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ > >That contains 20 or so "customer testimonial" comments. I want to >randomly display 3-4 of them every time a page loads (using PHP). Is >there some type of random selction available within MySQL, as in: > > SELECT RANDOM(id),name,location,quote FROM testimonials WHERE >can_use=1 LIMIT 3; > >Or something to that effect or am I better served finding some way in >PHP to do this? .... ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3 ought to do it, unless your version of MySQL is older than 3.23.2. > >Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
