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El Forum
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12-10-2009, 04:40 PM

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
I believe (but have not tested or confirmed) that it is preferable, for performance reasons, to query the database on the number of rows in the table, use a local PHP random function against that figure, and then extract that specific record from the database.

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