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• • Team Webgalli@webgalli

  

  Team Webgalli 447 days ago

  If you set $num = 10, it will return your last ten friends. If you want to show random users, first get more than 10 of them with above function, and get 10  random users from them.

• • R@robtotoreb

  

  R 447 days ago

  Thanks for your repsonse.

  So if a user has 300 friends and I want to grab 10 random ones, I have retrieve all 300 friends and then use php array_rand() to list 10 random ones?

  This seems inefficient to retrieve all 300 to list 10.

• • Team Webgalli@webgalli

  

  Team Webgalli 447 days ago

  You can get 15 of them and show random from them.

• • R@robtotoreb

  

  R 447 days ago

  Wont that just shuffle that same 15 friends over and over?

• • Team Webgalli@webgalli

  

  Team Webgalli 447 days ago

  Rob, thats the quick solution. if you need a more stable and powerful way, you have to write your own SQL for fetching random users from DB and and then join them with "friend" relationship with your user. Have a look at the engine/lib/users.php file.

• • gillie@gillie

  

  gillie 446 days ago

  You could also get around it by using random $offset, which is where in the array to start. If you want to list 10 and have 300,

  $num = 10;

  $friends = $owner->listFriends('', $num, array(
      'size' => 'tiny',
      'pagination' => FALSE,
      'list_type' => 'gallery',
      'gallery_class' => 'elgg-gallery-users',
      'offset' => rand(0, 290),
      'count' => TRUE
  ));

   

• • R@robtotoreb

  

  R 445 days ago

  @gillie

  I like this option, I think I will try this out. One more things though. Is there an easy way to count the total number of friends a user has?

• • gillie@gillie

  

  gillie 445 days ago

  Might be an easier way, but you can use something like this,

  $options = array(
      'relationship' => 'friend',
      'relationship_guid' => elgg_get_page_owner_guid(),
      'types' => 'user',
      'count' => true
  );
  $count = elgg_get_entities_from_relationship($options);

• • Ismayil Khayredinov@ihayredinov

  

  Ismayil Khayredinov 445 days ago

  You can simply use 'order_by' => 'rand()' 

• • gillie@gillie

  

  gillie 445 days ago

  That was easy Ismayil, thanks.

• • R@robtotoreb

  

  R 445 days ago

  @ Ismayil

  Great I knew there was a simple solution! I will try this out.

  @ gillie

  Thanks for your suggestions!

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