Question

I’m wanting to display random adverts on my front end that are selected from a table. Each advert has a score between 1 and 5. The higher the advert score, the more frequently it should be selected

Is there any way I could achieve this in a query? So maybe something like

SELECT * FROM advert ORDER BY RAND(), (SOME MAGICAL PREFERENCE ORDERING) LIMIT 3

Thanks!

Answer 1

How about

SELECT * FROM advert ORDER BY RAND() * (SOME MAGICAL PREFERENCE ORDERING) DESC LIMIT 3