Question

I have been asked to get related stuff to what the user has in his items

so as far as the database was created this items table stores the category name so,
i thought to get the category name and save it into an array

and then do a for loop and get one random value from it

and after that get a random row from mysql database so anyone has an idea how to do this

in other words i want to know how to get a random value from an array and a random row from mysql

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

use

 $rand_keys = array_rand($input, 1);

see example http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-rand.php
for php and for mysql

 SELECT * FROM tbl_name ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1

use this