Christopher, Please remember that I am asking these same questions so there is no such thing as ignorance just different perspectives. With that being said I would read the two posts because even if you do not need the random cfc they are very good articles. Here is a situation where you would need a random row. You could use it in a banner ad program where you just want to display a random ad, or a shopping cart where you want to show a random product from the products table. Maybe you would even like to customize it for our shopping cart application. Lets say we have a featured flag in our products table, you could add to that
and featured = 1 Now on our home page instead of writing a featuredProduct rotator component we can just grab a random row. These are just ideas but who knows, maybe someone else can make use of it. I needed it for a specific reason that I am not at liberty to share. Feedback is always welcome so thank you for your thoughts Christopher! Dan Vega On 12/28/06, Christopher Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay. I'm gonna show some ignorance here. Ready? Good. :oP > > I read your blog entry, Dan, and the entire CFC. I did not read either > of the other two blog articles you mentioned (so maybe that's where this > ignorance is coming from). I understand how your code works. That's not > my problem. > > uh... what's the point? Why would you want to get a random row from a > table? > > Okay, to be fare, I just thought of one reason. So maybe there are more. > Are there folks out there clamoring for the ability to get a random > rows, random directories and random colors? > > Random strings and numbers I see more use for, but there are already > plenty of UDFs written that can obtain a random string of characters > (numbers included). > > I guess I just don't understand. There must be a reason I'm missing. > Help me. :o) > > Cheers, > Chris > > Dan Vega wrote: > > All, > > I just created a quick and dirty random cfc component and a quick > posting to > > go with it. I could really use some feedback on how to split it up if > anyone > > gets a chance. > > > > http://www.danvega.org/blog/index.cfm/2006/12/28/Random-CFC > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.cjordan.info > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265257 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
