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randomising a quote from mysql


davieboy

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I agree 100% with what Shivabharat advised. A few things I would add though:

 

With the more current versions of php you suppossedly don\'t need to seed rand with srand.

 

I would select min(quoteid), max(quoteid) from yourtable first, then use those values to pass to rand:

 

$randid = rand($minval, $maxval);

 

Then as Shiv suggested just do a select quote from yourtable where quoteid = $randid

 

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