MySQL. Random rows. Convert rows into PHP arrays.

Question

I have a MySQL table with four columns, submited_name, submited_URL, submited_type, uniqueID . In this table i have about 1000 records. I need to select 10 random entries. The problem is that I need to split selected random values into separate PHP arrays. One for each column. My arrays should look something like this:

$ten_random_names = array ('name26', 'name55', 'name107', ect.);
$ten_random_URL = array ('url for name26', 'url for name55', 'url for name107', ect..);
$ten_random_types = array ('type for name26', 'type for name55', 'type for name107', ect..);

Answer 1

The basics:

$sql = "SELECT name, url, type FROM ... WHERE ... ORDER BY random() LIMIT 10"; // inefficient, but works
$results = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());

$names = $url = $types = array();
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
   $names[] = $row['name'];
   $url[] = $row['url'];
   $type[] = $row['type'];
}

Answer 2

$query = "SELECT *
          FROM tablename
          ORDER BY RAND()
          LIMIT 10";
$result = mysql_query($query);

$ten_random_names = $ten_random_URL = $ten_random_types = array();
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  $ten_random_names[] = $row['submited_name'];
  $ten_random_URL[] = $row['submited_URL'];
  $ten_random_types[] = $row['submited_type'];
}