Pulling a Random Result

[Alexej Kubarev]

i of the solutions would be pulling all of the articles into an indexed array and then using rand() function to generate a random index.. however this wouldnt be very optimized... you may want to get to populate an array of article_ids first.. then pick one using rand() and then query for the whole article..

 

[gesf]

Here you have yfs1.
Alexei has already explained it

<?php

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$random = rand(0,1);

$categories = array('Arts', 'Business', 'Computers', 'Health'); 

return $categories[$random];

?>

 

[Alexej Kubarev]

hehe gesf : i mostly prefere giving suggestions to people on how to solve it and not making the whole code: that way people learn faster and that knowledge will stick with them... thats how i learned both C# and PHP

 

[gesf]

That's ok... i've used the 1º rule of a programmer: Re-use the code

 

[Alexej Kubarev]

well.. thats not always a good idea ^^
i prefere coding from scratch as i can make some small adjustments on the fly. however now i have made my framework: there will be some part of the code that willb e used everywhere..

 

[Alexej Kubarev]

Im a bit fftopic: again: but hey: no1 will dare to blame me ^^

 

[gesf]

I do like coding from scratch too!
Don't worry... i just do that in some cases and mainly when i'm home... where i have everything