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Offline Palamedes

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Random sort order for products
« on: March 07, 2012, 01:25:34 PM »
MySQL allows for a random order of items..  It would be nice if we could have a sort by that uses "ORDER BY RAND()" for product category pages so that it shows a random listing.

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Re: Random sort order for products
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2012, 08:58:26 AM »
Where exactly do you suggest to have that?
Any downside on performance of SQL with larger sets?

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Re: Random sort order for products
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2012, 05:43:01 PM »
Howdy!

I'd like to see it as an option in the latest products maybe with some weighting mechanic or at the very least in a category view.

Right now the category view has a sort drop down with a number of options.. it would be trivial to add the random option.. ( I already did it on mine to see if I could.. )
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