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#234675 01/30/2003 2:28 PM
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We're running a contest on our board. Each person who votes during the month will get one entry. Then we want to run a query to get a random post that is between the two dates (whole month); giving each person who posted one shot at winning.

Anyone have a suggestion on a query that could do this - or do I need to write a script?

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MySQL has an mathemetical function to generate a random number with a value between 0.0 and 1.0 but this won't help you much, i suppose.

You could also try something like this, which works good on small tables:

SELECT * FROM tablename where B_Posted > '$startdate' and B_Posted < '$enddate' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1

This is not a good idea if your posts table has moore than about 300.000 entries.

Since the startdate and enddate changes each month, you need to write a script anyway.
So generating a random number could be done with php also.
Something like this should work:

SELECT MIN(B_Number), MAX(B_Number) where B_Posted > '$startdate' and B_Posted < '$enddate' FROM tablename;

Fetch the result into $a

$id=rand($a[0],$a[1]);

SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE B_Number>='$d' LIMIT 1


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