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Asked: 2026-06-03T13:23:15+00:00

i am trying to fetch random records from mysql database , which it worked

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i am trying to fetch random records from mysql database , which it worked but i need the records to be also unique when i fetch them as they duplicated on the output, here is my code:

    <?

for ($counter = 1; $counter <=5;$counter++) 
{

$randomPostSelect = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT * FROM beventreservation WHERE (beventStatus='online' OR beventStatus='soldout') ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5") or die(mysql_error());

$fetchPosts = mysql_fetch_array($randomPostSelect) or die(mysql_error());


echo '<li><a href="reservation.php?rev='.$fetchPosts['eventId'].'">'.$fetchPosts['eventTitle'].'</a></li>';
echo '</br>';
}


?>

how can i do that ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have all the code in a for loop including the code that runs the query; you “extract” 5 rows from db but only fetch the first, and repeat this 5 times. Instead you should run the query once, then loop on your results until you reach the end of the results:

    <?
$randomPostSelect = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT * FROM beventreservation 
        WHERE (beventStatus='online' OR beventStatus='soldout') ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5")
    or die(mysql_error());

while ($fetchPosts = mysql_fetch_array($randomPostSelect))
{
    echo '<li><a href="reservation.php?rev='.$fetchPosts['eventId'].'">'.$fetchPosts['eventTitle']
        .'</a </li>';
    echo '</br>';
}
?>
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