Pagination while randomizing.

[Buddyb3ar]

Well, I'll start out by saying I'm working on a project codenamed "rewrite" for the moment. If you want to see the idea, you can look it up yourself, since that's not the point of this topic.
[url=http://www.black-winged.net/truth/]http://www.black-winged.net/truth/[/url]
If you look, you may notice the growing amount of secrets that is becoming a big problem, especially for dial-up users. Also, you may notice that the secrets randomized everytime you refresh.

Since I know it is impossible to keep the secrets randomized while also broken into pages, would it be possible to sort the secrets by IDs and then randomize the the secrets on that page?
If that's possible, how would I do that while keeping them in columns of three?

If you need to see some of the code that I used now, just ask. :/
Thanks,
Dan

[sasa]

try[code]
<?php
$result=mysql_query($sql);
while ($a=mysql_fetch_array($result)) $rows[]=$a;
$keys= array_rand($rows,count($rows));
foreach ($keys as  $key){
$row=$rows[$key];
// you code
}
?>
[/code]

[Buddyb3ar]

[code]
<?php
$result = mysql_query("
  SELECT
    *
  FROM
    notes
ORDER BY RAND()
");
$total = mysql_num_rows($result);
page_header($css, "");
index_header($total);
$number_of_categories_in_row = 3;

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$text = markerconvert($row[content]);
  $result_array[] = "<div id=\"".$row[ID]."\" class=\"notecontent\" style=\"border: 1px ".$row[bclr]." solid; background-color:".$row[bgclr]."; font-size:10; width:160px; height:100px;\">".$text."</div>";
}
mysql_free_result($result);

foreach ($result_array as $category_link) {
  if ($counter == $number_of_categories_in_row) {
    $counter = 1;
    $result_final .= "\n</tr>\n<tr>\n";
  } else $counter++;
  $result_final .= "\t<td>" . $category_link . "</td>\n";
}

if ($counter) {
  if ($number_of_categories_in_row - $counter)
    $result_final .= "\t<td colspan='" .
      ($number_of_categories_in_row - $counter) . "'>&nbsp;</td>\n";


}
index_footer($result_final);
page_footer();
?>
[/code]

See, the problem is that I don't know how to fit that into there.

[sasa]

try[code]
<?php
mysql_connect("", "", "");
mysql_select_db("");

$seed = (isset($_GET['seed']) and $_GET['seed'] >= 1) ? intval($_GET['seed']) : rand(1,10000);
$page = (isset($_GET['page']) and $_GET['page'] >= 1) ? intval($_GET['page']) : 1;
$per_page = 3;
$total = mysql_result(mysql_query('select count(*) from notes'),0,0);

$t_pages = ceil($total/$per_page);
$page = $page > $t_pages ? $t_pages : $page;
$start = ($page - 1) * $per_page;
$result = mysql_query("
  SELECT
    *
  FROM
    notes
ORDER BY RAND($seed)
LIMIT $start, $per_page
") or die(mysql_error());

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$text = markerconvert($row[content]);
  $result_array[] = "<div id=\"".$row[ID]."\" class=\"notecontent\" style=\"border: 1px ".$row[bclr]." solid; background-color:".$row[bgclr]."; font-size:10; width:160px; height:100px;\">".$text."</div>";

}
mysql_free_result($result);

foreach ($result_array as $category_link) {
  if ($counter == $number_of_categories_in_row) {
    $counter = 1;
    $result_final .= "\n</tr>\n<tr>\n";
  } else $counter++;
  $result_final .= "\t<td>" . $category_link . "</td>\n";
}

if ($counter) {
  if ($number_of_categories_in_row - $counter)
    $result_final .= "\t<td colspan='" .
      ($number_of_categories_in_row - $counter) . "'>&nbsp;</td>\n";


}

index_footer($result_final);

if ($page > 1) echo '<a href="?page='.($page-1).'&seed='.$seed.'">PREV </a>'; else echo 'PREV ';
for ($i = 1; $i<=$t_pages;$i++) if ($i != $page) echo '<a href="?page='.$i.'&seed='.$seed.'">| '.$i.' </a>';
else echo "| $i ";
if ($page < $t_pages) echo '<a href="?page='.($page+1).'&seed='.$seed.'">| NEXT</a>';else echo '| NEXT';


page_footer();

?>
[/code]

[Buddyb3ar]

OH WOW!
Thank you so much!

It just took a little tweaking of the code here and there, and I got it to work perfectly.
Thank you very very much!
I can now work with the code to change it how I need too.