Laravel - Paginate Random records

Question

How we can paginate through random records in laravel? for example:

$products = Product::all()->orderBy(DB::raw(\'RAND()\'));
$products->paginate(4);
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Answer 1

Whe you dive into the documentation of mysql and search for the RAND() functionality you will see you can use a "seed".

By using a seed you will always get the same results that are randomised.

Example:

$products = Product

    ::all()

    ->orderBy(DB::raw('RAND(1234)'))

    ->paginate(4);

You can generate your own seed and store in in a session or something to remember it.

Update

The Laravel query builder now has a function that does exactly the same:

$products = Product

    ::all()

    ->inRandomOrder('1234')

    ->paginate(4);