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How to make URL Safe strings for mod_rewrite using PHP
It's relatively easy to make URL safe strings for use by mod_rewrite. Let's use the example that you have a form that adds a new blog post to your site. When the user submits this form, you want to generate a URL safe string (based on the title of the blog post) for mod_rewrite to [...]
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This is an update to a previous post of mine which uses the RAND() method. Using the following code, you can retrieve a random row much, much faster (MySQL 4.1.x/5.0.x), with thanks to Jan Kneschke: SELECT <COLUMN> FROM <TABLE> AS r1 JOIN (SELECT ROUND( RAND( ) * ( SELECT MAX( id ) FROM <TABLE>) ) AS [...]
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