ID: 22597 Comment by: justin at visunet dot ie Reported By: grugli at mmedia dot is Status: Bogus Bug Type: MySQL related Operating System: Windows XP PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment:
When you say: This MySql-query doesn't seem to work. $Query = "select * from $TableName ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1"; The only thing that the query returns is the first row and nothing else. 1) Limit should be used like so .. LIMIT 0,1 2) In the above example LIMIT makes mySQL returns the first row and nothing else. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-04-29 05:06:55] mir at irczone dot dk I have this problem too, using PHP 4.3.0 on Mac OS X 10.2.5 and also on FreeBSD 4.7 with PHP 4.3.1 both running as a module in Apache 1.3.27 and talking with a MySQL 3.23.54 server. When using the mysql client on the commmandline, the RAND() works fine. It worked before, with the exact same code, unfortunately I don't know which version of PHP broke it - my guess would be PHP 4.3. Hope you can fix this ASAP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-17 09:52:19] gaui at gaui dot is Ok, this problem persists here and is VERY annoying. Please fix this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-12 21:12:37] genius at airmail dot net I made the previous comment too quickly, it appears to me that this indeed is a php (for win32 .. cause it tested on linux w/o problems) problem. when running mysql command line this command 'select * from pictures order by rand()' produces random results, however when calling that same command from php it always returns the same result. in my previous post i was running 'select * from pictures order by rand(now())' from the command line which returns the same result every time, which lead me to believe the bug was in mysql. someone please reopen this bug report ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-12 20:45:54] genius at airmail dot net The bug is in mysql as I can reproduce it from the command-line. It also may be windows-specific ... this bug is often mistaken for not providing a random seed i.e. rand(now()) but the problem persists even with the seed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-03-08 05:27:47] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Thank you for your interest in PHP. PHP uses the same api call (mysql_query/mysql_real_query) as in mysql command line client and it doesn't change the query string. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/22597 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22597&edit=1
