Pass along a hidden form which documents exactly what rows have already been shown
<input type="hidden" name="seen" value="1:4:3:9:10:5:27"> then you could use $seen=explode(':', $seen); to break it into an array... after that use a foreach to add a 'and id != '.$seen into the sql query for every element in $seen... thus not allowing duplicates on a per visit basis... -----Original Message----- From: Georgie Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Random Selecting from mySQL yea, i know how to display 10 results per page, but that doesnt work when you want to do a ORDER BY rand() query. "Gurhan Ozen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > are you just looking for a way to display 10 results per page? If yes then > you can just use LIMIT to limit your result to 10 .. So, for the first page, > you can do "SELECT .... LIMIT 1, 10;" and for the second page "SELECT ... > LIMIT 11, 20" etc etc . > You can sure use "ORDER BY" with "LIMIT" to to sort the results for a > given criteria .. > > Gurhan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Georgie Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DB] Random Selecting from mySQL > > > I know how to use the "ORDER BY rand()" command on the end of queries to > randomize selection, but that's no good when you want to only display 10 > results per page. The next page the user chooses, randomizes again and could > show duplicate fields and not at all show other fields. > > Does anyone know a way round this? > > -- > Regards, > Georgie Casey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *************************** > http://www.filmfind.tv > Ireland's Online Film Production Directory > *************************** > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php