Is it possible to use zend paginator on a mysql query with random ordering?
I’m struggling to wrap my head around this one.
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Is it possible to use zend paginator on a mysql query with random ordering?
I’m struggling to wrap my head around this one.
ORDER BY RAND() will (unsuprisingly) return random results each time it is run, so you won’t be able to paginate this in the normal way.
You would have to select ALL the data in the first run, record the order of the elements and use this on any subsequent pages. Alternatively you could just select all the data and do the pagination with Ajax. Either approach would be a fair bit of work.