how get random row laravel-5

Question

In L-4 it was simple:

$random_quote = Quotation::all()->random(1);

But now in L-5 not a single method described in this post is working: Lar

Answer 1

I'd implement this a little differently, using Benjamin's idea. A Query Scope for this feels appropriate so it's reusable, and it falls into your normal Eloquent use.

Note: In Eloquent 5.2, there is built in support for global scopes.

I'm going to create a trait that models can utilize, but you can just add the scopeRandom method directly to your specific model.

/app/GlobalScopes.php

 0 ? mt_rand(0, $totalRows) : 0;

        return  $query->skip($skip)->take(1);
    }
}

Then, each model you want to utilize the global scopes, name the trait inside the class.

/app/Quotation.php

In use:

$randomQuote = \Quotation::random()->first();