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Michael Giovanni Pumo
Michael Giovanni Pumo

Reputation: 14784

CFWheels - Order = "random" is throwing a column error

For some reason, when I specify "random" in my order clause of findAll(), CFWHeels throws an error:

Wheels.ColumnNotFound

Wheels looked for the column mapped to the random property but couldn't find it in the database table. Suggested action

Verify the order argument and/or your property to column mappings done with the property method inside the model's init method to make sure everything is correct.

I have used calculated properties before, but this shouldn't be looking for any of that with regard to "random" ordering.

<cffunction name="random">

    <cfparam name="params.page" default="1" />
    <cfparam name="params.pageQuantity" default="5" />

    <cfset posts = model("post").findAll(

        select = "

            posts.postID,
            postTitle,
            postPoints,
            postAuthority,
            postCreated,

            postCommentCount,
            postUpVoteCount,
            postDownVoteCount,

            users.userID,
            userName,

            categories.categoryID,
            categoryTitle,
            categoryToken",

        include     = "user,category", 
        order       = "random",
        page        = params.page,
        perPage     = params.pageQuantity

    ) />

</cffunction>

Does this possibly have something to do with using a select statement?

Would appreciate any help.

Many thanks, Michael.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 135

Answers (1)

Dan Bracuk
Dan Bracuk

Reputation: 20804

As established in the commments.

If order by rand() works in mySQL, the first thing I would try is order = 'rand()' in the wheels function.

Upvotes: 3

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