I did that all the time in Drupal 6 using Views. It's dead simple. (Order random limit 1, done.) I haven't tried doing it in Drupal 7, but I'm sure the same method still works.
--Larry Garfield On Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:33:34 pm Blaine Lang wrote: > I have a need for a block that will display a random quote. Node type = > 'random_quote' and only 1 random record should be displayed > > In D7 the body contents are in field_data_body and I have it working > using the DB API but it would probably be better using the > entityController class methods like 'entity_load' > > I see that you can pass in conditions but is it possible to return a > single random record? > > Does anyone with more experience with the new EntityController have any > recommendations? > > Thanks!
