That would also work a treat, I believe, if I could be bothered creating a 
series of views in different orders.
Perhaps if the other didn't go so smoothly, I would've gone down this road.
Cheers
Dave T

From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rory Casey
Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2008 2:40 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: [phpug] Re: randomised resultset and pagination best practice?

Another option (although kind of the same as all the other ideas) is to create 
a view in your database that only contains the randomly ordered result-set (in 
the order you want). Pagination will just select from the view. When you need a 
new random order, drop the view and create a new one.

Not sure of the performance implications though


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