How to use PHP & MySQL Random Rows Data

Author: admin | Posted: 21-03-2010 | Category: PHP & MySQL

How to use PHP & MySQL Random Rows Data Learn PHP how to using PHP random data from mysql table.

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- PHP & MySQL random data from mysql.

Example

php_random_data.php


<html>
<head>
<title>ShotDev.Com Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
<?
$objConnect = mysql_connect("localhost","root","root") or die(mysql_error());
$objDB = mysql_select_db("mydatabase");
$strSQL = "SELECT * FROM customer ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 2";
$objQuery = mysql_query($strSQL) or die ("Error Query [".$strSQL."]");
?>
<table width="600" border="1">
<tr>
<th width="91"> <div align="center">CustomerID </div></th>
<th width="98"> <div align="center">Name </div></th>
<th width="198"> <div align="center">Email </div></th>
<th width="97"> <div align="center">CountryCode </div></th>
<th width="59"> <div align="center">Budget </div></th>
<th width="71"> <div align="center">Used </div></th>
</tr>
<?
while($objResult = mysql_fetch_array($objQuery))
{
?>
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><?=$objResult["CustomerID"];?></div></td>
<td><?=$objResult["Name"];?></td>
<td><?=$objResult["Email"];?></td>
<td><div align="center"><?=$objResult["CountryCode"];?></div></td>
<td align="right"><?=$objResult["Budget"];?></td>
<td align="right"><?=$objResult["Used"];?></td>
</tr>
<?
}
?>
</table>
<?
mysql_close($objConnect);
?>
</body>
</html>

Create a php file and save to path root-path/myphp/

Run
http://localhost/myphp/php_random_data.php

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