Question

I have a MySQL table with four columns, submited_name, submited_URL, submited_type, uniqueID. In this table i have about 1000 records. I need to select 10 random entries. The problem is that I need to split selected random values into separate PHP arrays. One for each column. My arrays should look something like this:

$ten_random_names = array ('name26', 'name55', 'name107', ect.);
$ten_random_URL = array ('url for name26', 'url for name55', 'url for name107', ect..);
$ten_random_types = array ('type for name26', 'type for name55', 'type for name107', ect..);

Answer 1

$query = "SELECT *
          FROM tablename
          ORDER BY RAND()
          LIMIT 10";
$result = mysql_query($query);

$ten_random_names = $ten_random_URL = $ten_random_types = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  $ten_random_names[] = $row['submited_name'];
  $ten_random_URL[] = $row['submited_URL'];
  $ten_random_types[] = $row['submited_type'];
}