Randomly pick one out of table

[AnhTuanCool]

So hi people,

I have a small question and very needed to be explained :)
I want to randomly pick an id out of a table so I wrote this


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But it didn't work, I know my PHP and SQL skill still bad so I really need some support now. Thanks in advanced.

[Creative Suite]

$allids = $DB_site->query("SELECT id FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "test order by RAND() LIMIT 1");

[filburt1]

Almost...if you want to get just one randomly:


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You should pretty much never have to get the entire contents of a table. It scales like crap and you'll cripple the server after the table gets too big. The exception is when you know the table is going to have very few rows and you need to read each and every one of the rows in the table.

[AnhTuanCool]

Got it worked right the first try, thank you very much guys :)