Random Products

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Hi everyone? Hope everyone is doing as well as possible... I wanted my products below to be able to show up random. Now i located the file that is in control of these products showing up like this... All it does is just post the recent 3 products that i have uploaded? So since im not really smart at php, i figured some of you smart guys out there might be able to look at the code below and say well you can do this. Thank for you help... I hope i gave you all the information that you needed!!

 

 

 

Now this is the code for these products, i would like it so that when the page loads it show 3 different products automatically... basically pulls them from my database, blah blah blah.... thanks guys

 

?>
<!-- new_products //-->
<?php

 if ( (!isset($new_products_category_id)) || ($new_products_category_id == '0') ) {
$new_products_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, p.products_image, p.products_tax_class_id, if(s.status, s.specials_new_products_price, p.products_price) as products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_SPECIALS . " s on p.products_id = s.products_id where products_status = '1' order by p.products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_PRODUCTS);
 } else {
$new_products_query = tep_db_query("select distinct p.products_id, p.products_image, p.products_tax_class_id, if(s.status, s.specials_new_products_price, p.products_price) as products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_SPECIALS . " s on p.products_id = s.products_id, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_TO_CATEGORIES . " p2c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c where p.products_id = p2c.products_id and p2c.categories_id = c.categories_id and c.parent_id = '" . (int)$new_products_category_id . "' and p.products_status = '1' order by p.products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_PRODUCTS);
 }

 $row = 0;
 $col = 0;


 echo '


					  <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=474 align=center>
					  <tr><td height=4 colspan=5></td></tr>
					   <tr><td colspan=5><img src=images/m36.gif width=148 height=15></td></tr>
					   <tr><td height=4 colspan=5></td></tr>
					   <tr><td height=1 width=474 bgcolor=#A90000 colspan=5></td></tr>
					   <tr><td height=16 colspan=5></td></tr>
					   <tr>
   ';


 while ($new_products = tep_db_fetch_array($new_products_query)) {
  $new_products['products_name'] = tep_get_products_name($new_products['products_id']);
  $product_query = tep_db_query("select products_description  from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " where products_id = '" . (int)$new_products['products_id'] . "' and language_id = '" . (int)1 . "'");
  $product = tep_db_fetch_array($product_query);
  $new_products['products_description'] = $product['products_description'];
  echo '

					   <td width=157 valign=top>
							<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=142 align=center>
							 <tr><td height=42 align=center colspan=2><a class=ml2 href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $new_products['products_id']) . '">' . $new_products['products_name'] . '</a></td></tr>
							 <tr><td height=8 colspan=2></td></tr>
							 <tr><td colspan=2><img src=images/m40.gif width=142 height=1></td></tr>
							 <tr><td height=4 colspan=2></td></tr>
							 <tr><td width=100 align=center><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $new_products['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $new_products['products_image'], $new_products['products_name'], SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT, 'vspace=5') . '</a></td><td width=42 height=15  valign=bottom class=ch1>'.$currencies->display_price($new_products['products_price'], tep_get_tax_rate($new_products['products_tax_class_id'])).'</td></tr>
							 <tr><td height=6 colspan=2></td></tr>
							 <tr><td colspan=2><img src=images/m40.gif width=142 height=1></td></tr>
							 <tr><td height=7 colspan=2></td></tr>
							 <tr><td colspan=2><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $new_products['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image_button('small_view.gif') . '</a>  <a href="' . tep_href_link(basename($PHP_SELF), tep_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $new_products['products_id']) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_in_cart.gif') . '</a></td></tr>
							 <tr><td height=3 colspan=2></td></tr>
							</table>
						   </td>



	';

$col ++;
if ($col > 2) {
  $col = 0;
  $row ++;
  echo '
					 </tr>
					 <tr>
	   ';
} else echo '<td width=1 bgcolor=#4C4C4C></td>';
 }


 echo '

					 </tr>
					 <tr><td colspan=2 height=15></td></tr>				
					</table>
   ';


?>

Edited October 22, 2006 by JJ21

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<?php

 

if ( (!isset($new_products_category_id)) || ($new_products_category_id == '0') ) {

$new_products_query = tep_db_query("select p.products_id, p.products_image, p.products_tax_class_id, if(s.status, s.specials_new_products_price, p.products_price) as products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_SPECIALS . " s on p.products_id = s.products_id where products_status = '1' order by p.products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_PRODUCTS);

} else {

$new_products_query = tep_db_query("select distinct p.products_id, p.products_image, p.products_tax_class_id, if(s.status, s.specials_new_products_price, p.products_price) as products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_SPECIALS . " s on p.products_id = s.products_id, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_TO_CATEGORIES . " p2c, " . TABLE_CATEGORIES . " c where p.products_id = p2c.products_id and p2c.categories_id = c.categories_id and c.parent_id = '" . (int)$new_products_category_id . "' and p.products_status = '1' order by p.products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_DISPLAY_NEW_PRODUCTS);

}

 

The query pulling the products from the database is sorting by products_date_added change the underlined section to ORDER BY RAND() this should pick random products.

 

Cheers Eric.