Hello, I have a table that stores image information in it, such as width, height, link, alt(message), and stuff like that.

I added this subroutine that returns the standard format of html to print that "image". here is what I did:

sub Get_Banner_Rotator {
    my ($row, $dbh, $sth, $html_content);
    $sth = $dbh->prepare (qq{ SELECT * FROM Banner_Rotator ORDER BY RA
+ND() LIMIT 1 });
    $sth->execute();
    $row = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
    if (defined($row) && $row ne "") {
        $html_content = qq~Print the link and image~;
    }
$html_content =~ s/{{imageurl}}/$imageurl/g;
return($html_content);
}

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My problem, is that it keeps grabbing the VERY SAME record. Number 1.

Am I missing something here? I do something similar on another one of my websites, and it works, however it is doing the MySQL clause like this: 
"SELECT id FROM table
WHERE u = '1'
ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1"

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That one works.
of course it is ONLY getting the id from it, but shouldn't mine also grab a random record?

I've only added 3, at this point, but it shows that one only, every single time I refresh the page.

Do you see something wrong there?

thx,
Richard

In reply to Perl and MySQL - getting a random record by powerhouse

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