skirrow
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Apr 7, 2002, 3:57 PM
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Hi,
I want to randomly select a record from a table and display it, how do I do this?
The fields in the table are, Comment and Name. At present, I'm using this code but obviously it will display all the records, not just one randomly selected record.
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(<<End_SQL) or die "Couldn't prepare statement: $DBI::errstr; stopped";
SELECT Comment, Name FROM `testimonials`
End_SQL
$sth->execute() or die "Couldn't execute statement: $DBI::errstr; stopped";
while ( my ($comment, $name) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
print "<tr><td><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="1"><i>\"$comment\"</i></font></td></tr>\n";
print "<tr><td align=right><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="1"><b>$name</b></font></td></tr>\n";
}
All assistance is appreciated.
- Neil
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