You can grab it on my Github: http://github.com/a1phanumeric/PHP-MySQL-Class.

Setup

The setup is simple:

Simply include this class into your project like so:

include_once('/path/to/class.MySQL.php');

Then make sure you have the following definitions set:

MYSQL_HOST
MYSQL_USER
MYSQL_PASS
MYSQL_NAME

I usually include them in a globally included config file.

MYSQL_HOST = The hostname of the MySQL server (usually, but not always, ‘localhost’).

MYSQL_USER = Your username for the server / database

MYSQL_PASS = Your password for the server / database

MYSQL_NAME = The name of your database

Usage

To use this class, you’d first init the object like so:

$oMySQL = new MySQL();

The class constructor will perform a connection to the database automatically. To execute statements simply use:

$oMySQL->ExecuteSQL($query);

There’s plenty more to do with this class, such as get instantly arrayed results using:

$oMySQL->ArrayResults();

Or:

$oMySQL->ArrayResultsWithKey();

So have a play and let me know what you think …or fork me!

The code is all here:

http://github.com/a1phanumeric/PHP-MySQL-Class

SELECT FROM AS r1
JOIN (SELECT ROUND(
RAND( ) * (
SELECT MAX( id ) FROM )
) AS id
) AS r2
WHERE r1.id >= r2.id
ORDER BY r1.id ASC
LIMIT 1;

Replace:

• <COLUMN> with the name of the column(s) you wish to retrieve
• <TABLE> with the name of the table you wish to retrieve the data from

I've tested this with a table with over 660,000 records, and got a response in 0.0200 seconds, whereas with ORDER BY RAND() i got a response in 2.1599 seconds.

Total Number of Rows:

Old Method:

New Method:

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