1 select.inc | public SelectQueryExtender::orderRandom() |
Orders the result set by a random value.
This may be stacked with other orderBy() calls. If so, the query will order by each specified field, including this one, in the order called. Although this method may be called multiple times on the same query, doing so is not particularly useful.
Note: The method used by most drivers may not scale to very large result sets. If you need to work with extremely large data sets, you may create your own database driver by subclassing off of an existing driver and implementing your own randomization mechanism. See
@link http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/mysql/order-by-rand/
for an example of such an alternate sorting mechanism.
Return value
SelectQueryInterface: The called object.
Overrides SelectQueryInterface::orderRandom
File
- core/
includes/ database/ select.inc, line 927 - Contains classes and interfaces for Select queries.
Class
- SelectQueryExtender
- The base extender class for Select queries.
Code
public function orderRandom() {
$this->query->orderRandom();
return $this;
}