Choosing Random Items from a MySQL Table
At one time or another, most of us find the need to display a random item from a batch of items on our Web site. Whether you are displaying a random banner or promotional item on your home page, or displaying a random post on your blog, you need to know how to do so effectively and efficiently. This article will show you two ways to do so. First, you can use the RAND() function within MySQL. To do that, you would simply use something like: SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1; That will return a single random result from your table. That’s the simple way to select a random item from your table. Using the LIMIT part of that query, you could actually select…
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