I created a random record generator for pulling current news items. I am using
an access database for the back end and would like to know if anyone has a
better solution. This code works, but I think I'm missing something. Thank you
in advance Keith.
Step 1: Pull the current records and get a count.
<cfquery name="get_news_count" datasource="#dsn#">
select fld_page_ID
from tbl_marketing_pages
where fld_item_type = "n"
and fld_active_date <= #now()#
and fld_inactive_date >= #now()#
</cfquery>
Step 2: Generate a random number from our count.
<cfset intRandomNumber = randRange(get_news_count.recordcount,
listLen(get_news_count.recordcount))>
Step 3: Output the query starting with the row equal to our random number and
only output one row.
<cfoutput query="get_news_count" startrow="#intRandomNumber#" maxrows="1">
Step 4: Set a random record id with the record ID that came back from our query.
<cfset randomID = #fld_page_ID#>
</cfoutput>
Step 5: Pull all the information from using our random record ID in our where
statement.
<cfif get_news_count.fld_page_ID GT "">
<cfquery name="get_news" datasource="#dsn#">
select fld_title, fld_body, fld_attach_ID, fld_url, fld_active_date,
fld_inactive_date
from tbl_marketing_pages
where fld_page_ID = #randomID#
</cfquery>
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