Select unseen random row from MySQL table
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Published on 2012-06-23T14:36:03Z
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We have a list of questions in a MySQL database and want it to show a random approved question to the user. When you click the Random button, we want another random question to be shown, but not any of the ones the user has already seen.
Right now the script looks like this:
<?php
mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password") or die(mysql_error());
mysql_select_db("aldrig") or die(mysql_error());
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM spg WHERE approved='1' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1;")
or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array( $result )) {
echo "<div class='contentTitle'><h1>";
echo $row['text'];
echo "</h1></div>";
}
?>
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