Hi all,
I am working on a website that requires two queries from a table at the same time. They must select a row based on the id, and then another random one not including the row just selected. I currently have:
$query = $pdo->prepare('SELECT title, content FROM cards WHERE card_id=? LIMIT 1');
$query->execute([$slugId]);
$row = $query->fetch();
to select the row based on the id. But I am unsure how to get a random id, in that how do I go about it? Do I just do something along the lines of:
$randomQuery = $pdo->('SELECT title, content FROM cards ORDER BY RAND() WHERE card_id !=? LIMIT 1');
$randomQuery->execute([$slugId]);
$randomRow = $query->fetch();
or is there another way to do it? Because isn't using $pdo twice opening two connections to the database? Is this the correct way to do it or is there another way that will only use one connection?
TIA